TESDA turns over training center to Bukidnon town
Published Sep 1, 2018 05:14 pm
By Dhel Nazario
MANOLO FORTICH , Bukidnon - The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) devolved its community-based training function to the local government of Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, symbolized by the turnover of the TESDA training facility in Barangay Tangkulan to Manolo Fortich Mayor Clive Quino.
(image from TESDA Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN)
TESDA Secretary Guiling Mamondiong has high hopes that the Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center, which the agency itself helped rehabilitate and refurbish, will eventually evolve into a skills development hub that shall serve the skills training need of the six towns comprising the first district.
The turnover ceremony was attended by Rep. Ma. Lourdes Acosta-Alba of the First District of Bukidnon, TESDA OIC Deputy Director General Gaspar Gayona, Assistant Executive Director Sonia Lipio, Provincial Director Kotie Bax, and Manolo Fortich officials, including Vice Mayor Miguel Demate and members of the Sangguniang Bayan.
“By devolving to you our community-based training function, we demonstrate to you our trust that you will make this training facility a center of excellence. Your willingness to accept this devolution, for which I am very pleased, indicates your support to the reform agenda of the government,” said Mamondiong, who bared that he had received instruction from no less than President Duterte to attend to the TVET needs of Manolo Fortich.
“We accept with open arms and open hearts the Technical Skills and Development Center and the functions and responsibility that goes with the devolution, because I have seen in TESDA and in Sec. Mamondiong his commitment and dedication to TVET. This is complementary to our program to provide free, quality education to our people,” Mayor Quino said in his acceptance remarks.
Mamondiong said his vision is for every town in the country to have its own TESDA center and said he will work with Congress and the Department of Budget and Management towards the realization of this vision.
During the turnover ceremony, Mamondiong delivered the training center’s first registered program with TESDA, a course on Organic Agriculture NC II, and with it, a 150-slot scholarship, mostly for indigenous peoples in the municipality.
He also matched the P5 million pledge of Rep. Acosta-Alba to finance the immediate construction of a trainees’ dormitory—in response to the challenge of Deputy Director General Gayona to make the center sustainable—and committed further TESDA scholarship slots to the LGU if the need arises.
(image from TESDA Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN)
TESDA Secretary Guiling Mamondiong has high hopes that the Manolo Fortich Technical Skills and Development Center, which the agency itself helped rehabilitate and refurbish, will eventually evolve into a skills development hub that shall serve the skills training need of the six towns comprising the first district.
The turnover ceremony was attended by Rep. Ma. Lourdes Acosta-Alba of the First District of Bukidnon, TESDA OIC Deputy Director General Gaspar Gayona, Assistant Executive Director Sonia Lipio, Provincial Director Kotie Bax, and Manolo Fortich officials, including Vice Mayor Miguel Demate and members of the Sangguniang Bayan.
“By devolving to you our community-based training function, we demonstrate to you our trust that you will make this training facility a center of excellence. Your willingness to accept this devolution, for which I am very pleased, indicates your support to the reform agenda of the government,” said Mamondiong, who bared that he had received instruction from no less than President Duterte to attend to the TVET needs of Manolo Fortich.
“We accept with open arms and open hearts the Technical Skills and Development Center and the functions and responsibility that goes with the devolution, because I have seen in TESDA and in Sec. Mamondiong his commitment and dedication to TVET. This is complementary to our program to provide free, quality education to our people,” Mayor Quino said in his acceptance remarks.
Mamondiong said his vision is for every town in the country to have its own TESDA center and said he will work with Congress and the Department of Budget and Management towards the realization of this vision.
During the turnover ceremony, Mamondiong delivered the training center’s first registered program with TESDA, a course on Organic Agriculture NC II, and with it, a 150-slot scholarship, mostly for indigenous peoples in the municipality.
He also matched the P5 million pledge of Rep. Acosta-Alba to finance the immediate construction of a trainees’ dormitory—in response to the challenge of Deputy Director General Gayona to make the center sustainable—and committed further TESDA scholarship slots to the LGU if the need arises.