Monday, March 28, 2005

Planning Workshop Along i-Care at BNVTS

Some of TESDA-Sorsogon's personnel will be at BNVTS today and tomorrow for a planning workshop with other Provincial Offices along TESDA V's part in the i-Care program of the government. Initially, all our programs will have activities that will be integrated in our i-Care package.

To all PDs, Planning Focals and other participants from other Provincial Offices and personnel of the Regional Office, welcome to Sorsogon from the TESDA-Sorsogon family.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

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Cong. Escudero Commits 650T for CBTED

Sorsogon First District Congressman Francis M. Escudero committed PhP 650,000 for the conduct of community-based trainings for enterprise development (CBTED) along priority industries in the First District of Sorsogon during his meeting with TESDA Sorsogon last March 16. This is in response to the Provincial Office's initial commitment for the same program aimed at helping the local economy through facilitation of trainings, small enterprise development interventions and convergence with other stakeholders. A possible partner along this identified by the Central Office is the office of the concerned congressman.

Discussion with Cong. Escudero's focal persons in all municipalities and city in the District are now being scheduled to thresh out the details and fine-tune the arrangements.

Cong. Escudero suggested during his meeting with TESDA-Sorsogon TESD Supv. Specialist Beth Bornas that initial intervention be honed along equipping of trainers who will in turn impart their expertise to the ultimate beneficiaries in all localities of the First District.

PD Santos Meets with Cong. Solis

TESDA-Sorsogon Provincial Director Mynda Santos is meeting today with Sorsogon 2nd District Cong. Jose G. Solis to discuss programs and activities that could be undertaken by TESDA Sorsogon Provincial Office in cooperation with the Office of the Congressman. Programs such as "Kasanayan, Hanapbuhay" or KasH and scholarships may be discussed.

With her is TESDA-Sorsogon Supervising TESD Specialist Beth Bornas.

Association of Sorsogon CTECs President Rowena Fajardo and other CTECs will also join PD Santos and Miss Bornas in their meeting with Cong. Solis to submit a request for computer units to be used by CTECs in the 2nd District along Career Guidance services and the operations of Mun. TESD Committees.

Earlier, Miss Bornas joined the Region V Acting Regional Director Fortunato M. Bosangit and Provincial Directors of other provincial offices in their visit to the offices of various Bicol congressmen in Manila to discuss possible areas of cooperation along middle-level manpower development in their respective districts. Initial discussions were made with 1st District Cong. Francis Escudero.

Monday, March 21, 2005

No Office this Holy Wednesday

We will not be at the office this Wednesday to Friday as part of the observance of Christendom's Holy Week this year. We will be back the following Monday, March 28.

CTECs Undergo Database Trng

We are pleased to inform everybody that the CTECs of Sorsogon just underwent a three-day training on database design, construction, deployment and maintenance this March 16-18 at Bulusan National Vocational Technical School. Twelve CTECs completed the training. Thanks to everybody who participated.

Monday, March 14, 2005

The Labor Market

March 14, 2005 - Sorsogon City

To tackle the tools and techniques to effectively implement the new Find+Seek+Train-Match Strategy of TESDA, the Regional Office V conducted the Local Employment Management Seminar with participants representing all six provinces in Bicol.

Even before the said seminar, the Provincial Office of Sorsogon has already been mapping out the priority skills in almost all the local municipalities here through the CTECs and PESO. This will require a regular monitoring of the supply and demand of the labor market.

Establishing labor market information units in the employment service will consider regional and local differences in terms of labor market conditions, i.e., occupational/skills composition of the labor force, stages of industrial development, skill requirements of industries, etc.

Such consideration is highly useful in deriving policy implications from the macro perspective. Better transparency of the functioning of the labor market on the regional level can be achieved with the availability of local data.

However, generating ten million jobs for the Filipinos may not be the ultimate solution.

Improving labor productivity and creating decent employment opportunities is vital for reducing global poverty as called for in the Millennium Development goals (MDGs), and stated in the ILO World Employment Report 2004-2005.

The ILO report says that the 185.9 million people in the world who were unemployed in 2003 represent the "tip of the iceberg" of the decent work deficit, since more than seven times that number of people are employed but still live in poverty. According to the report, some 2.8 billion people were employed globally in 2003, more than ever before. However, of these, nearly 1.4 billion - half the world's workers - are living in poverty unable to earn enough to lift themselves and their families above the poverty line.

To deal with this challenge, the report has suggested that "institutions should provide workers with security and training to better prepare them for the changing labor market."

In this context, the skills mapping plan of TESDA's provincial offices can be more successful by upgrading the informal economy as an alternative policy on improving labor productivity and creating decent jobs.

For the informal sector, there is a need to create policies to protect the workers.

Also, those local units that have managed to create such conditions for the Filipino workers are more likely to be on the right track.

- ella jamoralin

Thanks to Miss Bonganay and Mr. Sacayan of SFIST

We are pleased to tell everybody that Miss Salvacion Bonganay, EMIS Coordinator of San Francisco Institute of Science and Technology will be one of the trainers during the upcoming training for Sorsogon CTECs this March 16-18. Before serving TESDA-SFIST, Salve worked for the government of Bahrain as systems analyst-programmer for 11 years after a stint with what is now the NSO.

We would like to thank her in advance for her services. Thanks also to Mr. Manuel Sacayan, her boss at SFIST, for permitting us to avail of her services.

BNVTS Got New Head

We'd like to welcome Engr. Roan Espinas as the new head of Bulusan National Vocational Technical School. Engr. Espinas - or simply Roan, as most of us in TESDA fondly call him - was formerly assigned in TESDA Catanduanes Provincial Office as Supervising TESD Specialist.

Thanks to LGU Irosin, ASCTECs

In behalf of the Association of Sorsogon CTECs and the whole leadership of TESDA, we would like to commend LGU-Irosin under the leadership of Mayor Lilian Gonzales and the members of the Sangguniang Bayan for supporting the upcoming training on database for CTECs. We'd like also to thank Andy, Irosin's CTEC, for making the necessary arrangements with Mayor Gonzales.

The CTECs will be housed in San Mateo Hot Springs in Irosin under the sponsorship of its local government. Our accomodation there will be from March 16 to morning of March 19, according to Weng.

TESDA would like also to thank the whole Association of Sorsogon CTECs under the leadership of Weng Fajardo for making the activity possible.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Training for CTECs

The Association of Sorsogon CTECs will have their training on database construction, deployment and maintenance this March 16-18, 2005 at Bulusan National Vocational Technical School. We are expecting around 17 people to attend, including CTECs from throughout the Province and from the two TESDA schools.

This training aims to equip CTECs meet their data needs in line with the Seek-Find-Match-Train strategy. At the end of the training, we hope to be able to produce an MS Access database that they can use upon their return to their respective LGUs. The data that will be built-up and generated from this will also - perhaps more so - help the local TESD Committees.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

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ExCom in CASIFMAS

Tomorrow is ExCom Meeting at CASIFMAS in CamSur. We will be presenting TESDA-Sorsogon's (and that of Sorsogon TVET sector's) accomplishments for Jan-Feb 2005.

Welcome to TVET Sorsogon

Welcome to the blogspot for the TVET sector of Sorsogon. All stakeholders of technical vocational education and training (that's TVET in short) are welcome to post their questions, comments, suggestions and ideas - anything you think will help improve the TVET system in the Province. We especially encourage CTECs, members of Municipal TESD Committees, the PTESDC, PCACC, TVI instructors, administrators and registrars to participate. The main purpose for creating this blogspot is provide another avenue for free exchange of ideas and information. Please also take time to take a look at our website. At the moment it's at www.geocities.com/tesda_sorsogon. Please take note however, that postings may not constitute official policies or stand of TESDA Sorsogon Provincial Office or any of the recognized TVET bodies of Sorsogon. You will have to get the official documents from our website, either the one maintained by the Provincial Office or that of the Central or Regional Office or from our office.