BRIEF HISTORY

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) was established
through the Republic Act No. 7796, otherwise known as the "TESDA Act of 1994",
which was signed into law by then President Fidel V. Ramos on August 25, 1994. It
aims to encourage the full participation of and mobilize the industry, labor, local
government units, and technical-vocational institutions in the skills development of
the country's human resources.

The merging of the National Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC) of the Department
of Labor and Employment (DOLE), theBureau of Technical and Vocational Education
(BTVE) of the then Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS), and the
Apprenticeship Program of the Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) of the DOLE gave
birth to TESDA.

The fusion of the above offices was one of the key recommendations of the 1991
Report of the Congressional Commission on Education, which undertook a national
review of the state of Philippine education and manpower development. It was
meant to reduce overlapping in skills development activities initiated by various
public and private sector agencies, and to provide national directions for the
country's technical-vocational education and training (TVET) system. Hence, a major
thrust of TESDA is the formulation of a comprehensive development plan for middlelevel manpower based on the National Technical Education and Skills Development
Plan. This plan shall provide for a reformed industry-based training program that
includes apprenticeship, dual training system and other similar schemes.

TESDA is mandated to:

Integrate, coordinate and monitor skills development programs;

Restructure efforts to promote and develop middle-level manpower;
Approve skills standards and tests;
Develop an accreditation system for institutions involved in middle-level manpower
development;
Fund programs and projects for technical education and skills development; and
Assist trainers training programs.
At the same time, TESDA is expected to:

Devolve training functions to local governments;

Reform the apprenticeship program;

Involve industry/employers in skills training;
Formulate a skills development plan;
Develop and administer training incentives;
Organize skills competitions; and
Manage skills development funds.
Overall, TESDA formulates manpower and skills plans, sets appropriate skills
standards and tests, coordinates and monitors manpower policies and programs,
and provides policy directions and guidelines for resource allocation for the TVET
institutions in both the private and public sectors.

Today, TESDA has evolved into an organization that is responsive, effective and
efficient in delivering myriad services to its clients. To accomplish its multi-pronged
mission, the TESDA Board has been formulating strategies and programs geared
towards yielding the highest impact on manpower development in various areas,
industry sectors and institutions.

MISSION, VISION, VALUES STATEMENT & QUALITY POLICY

VISION

TESDA is the leading partner in the development of the Filipino workforce with
world-class competence and positive work values.

MISSION

TESDA provides direction, policies, programs and standards towards quality

technical education and skill development.

VALUES STATEMENT

We believe in demonstrated competence, institutional integrity, personal

commitment and deep sense of nationalism.

QUALITY POLICY

"We measure our worth by the satisfaction of the customers we serve" through:

Strategic Decisions
Effectiveness
Responsiveness
Value Adding
Integrity
Citizen focus
Efficiency
GOALS and OBJECTIVES

Promote and strengthen the quality of technical education and skills development
(TESD) programs to attain international competitiveness;
Focus TESD on meeting the changing demands for quality middle-level manpower;
Encourage critical and creative thinking by dissemination of the scientific and
technical knowledge base on middle-level manpower development programs;
Recognize and encourage the complementary roles of public and private institutions
in TESD and training systems; and
Inculcate desirable values thru the development of moral character with emphasis
on work ethic, self-discipline, self-reliance, and nationalism.
TESDA CORE BUSINESS
Direction Setting
Crucial to TESDA's role as the TVET authority in the country is its capacity to steer
and provide guidance to the sector. With the end in view of setting out clear
directions and establishing priorities, the availability of timely, relevant and
accurate information is of essence. Data gathered through the conduct of
researchers and studies shall be disseminated to enable the TVET stakeholders to
make informed decisions. With quality information, TVET policies and plans shall be
formulated that will serve as the blueprint for TVET implementation in the country.
Policies, Plans and Information
Programs and services relating to these concerns embody the role of TESDA as the
authority in TVET. These are aimed at providing clear directions and priorities for
TVET in the country. These include the formulation of plans and policies for the TVET

sector and the generation through researches and studies and the dissemination of
relevant data and information for informed decision of stakeholders of the sector.
Regional Technical Education and Skills Development (TESD) Plan
Labor Market Intelligence Reports
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Statistics
Pro-active Job Matching Process
TESDA shall SEEK (jobs) through domestic and international market intelligence
report to pinpoint specific job requirements. TESDA shall FIND (people) the right
people who can be trained to fit the jobs in partnership with NGOs, social welfare
agencies / institutions, school and community organizations. TESDA shall TRAIN
(people) using standards of quality for TVET developed in consultation with various
industry sectors. This pro-active matching process contributes to the best job-skills
fit. TESDA also focuses on increasing productivity of implemented training programs
by assisting individuals or groups who prefer to go into micro business, small and
medium enterprises of enterpreneurship training.
Standards Setting and Systems Development
Another pillar towards the realization of TESDA's authority role in the TVET sector is
to ensure quality through the provision of standards and system development
services. Competency assessment and certification of workers is continuously done
in pursuit of professionalizing skilled workers.
Competency Standards Development
Competency Assessment and Certification
Unified TVET Program Registration and Accreditation System (UTPRAS)
Ladderized Education Program (LEP)
Skills Competitions
Support to TVET Provision
In view of the need to provide equitable access and provision of TESD programs to
the growing TVET clients, TESDA continues to undertake direct training provision.
There are four training modalities, namely:
School-based training program
Center-based training program
Community-based training program
Enterprise-based training program
TVET Scholarships
Youth Profiling for Starring Careers (YP4SC)

4. Institutional Capacity Building

For TESDA to provide the required services and live up to its core business, it must
muster internal capacity and capability. It is necessary to build its competencies
along various requirements of its responsibilities in direction setting, standards
setting and systems development and in supporting TVET provision. Institutional
capacity building also involves the installation of the TESDA quality management
system at all levels of the organization.
THE REAL DEAL TESD
Under the stewardship of Secretary Joel Villanueva, TESDA Director General, the
agency's governance platform is dubbed as REAL DEAL TESD: From Enrollment to
Employabilitythru the Seek + Find + Train + Certify = Employability (SFTCE)
strategyto ensure Best-Job-Fit. Essentially, the SFTCE means to seek the jobs, find
the people that can be trained and train them based on the standards of the
industry, assess and certify the workers, and consequently make them employable
to the jobs available on the labor market.
Reach the grassroots
Empower the reached
Assure quality training and
Lifelong education
Develop
Enable and
Actively engage
Labor members In job opportunities thru employability and livelihood skills
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Competency Standards Development
This program aims at developing standards and systems that will align middle-level
skills and qualifications with the industry standards. The competency standards that
are promulgated by the TESDA Board as Training Regulations (TRs) serve as the
bases in the registration of TVET programs and in assessing the qualifications of the
middle-level skilled workers thru the competency assessment and certification
program. At present, there are four levels of qualifications, namely; NCI to NCIV
Unified TVET Program Registration and Accreditation System (UTPRAS)
UTPRAS consists of two components, namely registration and accreditation.
Program registration is a compliance with minimum requirements prescribed in the
TRs and anchored on competency-based system. Program registration prescribes
full compliance with the prevailing training standards, correction of sub-standard
ones and denial of registration for those who comply. An Integral part of program

registration is the monitoring of registered programs for continuous compliance to

standards. Program registration is compulsory.
Accreditation, on the other hand, is institutional and is viewed as both a process and
status. It is a process by which a TVET institution evaluates its operations and
programs, and seeks independent judgment to confirm that it substantially achieves
its objectives and is generally equal in quality to comparable institutions or
programs. As a status, it is a formal recognition granted by an authorized
accrediting agency to an institution that had installed a number or all the
components of quality systems in their programs/institution.
Competency Assessment and Certification
This program aims at assessing and certifying the competencies of the middle-level
workforce thru the Philippine TVET Qualification and Certification System (PTQCS).
The assessment process is done to confirm that a tech-voc graduate, industry
worker and/or practitioner can perform according to the standards in the workplace.
Certification is provided to those who meet the competency standards. Passers are
issued National Certificate (levels I-IV) or Certificate of Competency. This ensures
the productivity, quality and global competitiveness of the middle-level workers.
TESDA regularly updates its Registry of Workers Assessed and Certified (RWAC)
which provides information on the pool of certified workers for certain occupations.
Region III also has accredited competency assessment centers as well as
competency assessors who conduct the competency assessment processes for
individuals applying for certification.
Assessment is open to all Filipinos tech-voc or degree graduates, industry workers,
and TVET practitioners.
Scholarship Programs
Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP)
TWSP is designed to:
Directly intervene in the provision of training for highly critical skills
Encourage private TVET providers to redirect their training programs to skills that
are most needed by the economy
It hopes to provide skills and competencies to jobseekers thru appropriate training
programs that are directly connected to existing jobs for immediate employment.
Benefits for scholars include:
Free training
Free competency assessment
Qualification requirements:
Filipino citizen

At least 18 years old

Has taken the DepEd's National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) or has
under TESDA's Youth Profiling for Starring Careers (YP4SC)
Private Education Student Financial Assistance Program (PESFA)
This program was established thru Section 8 of the Republic Act No. 8545, otherwise
known as the Expanded Government Act (GASTPE) Act. PESFA offers educational
grants to qualified and deserving college freshmen both in degree and non-degree
courses. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and TESDA handle the
administration of the program for degree and non-degree courses, respectively.
The program seeks to:
Extend financial assistance to marginalized but deserving students in post
secondary non-degree courses
Promote TVET
Contribute to development of a competent skilled workforce; and
Assist private institutions in their development efforts by assuring a steady supply
of enrollees to their course offerings
Youth Profiling for Starring Careers (YP4SC)
Career profiling is a computer-based career guidance program that is geared
towards helping students, out-of-school youth (OSY) and unemployed adults decide
intelligently on what course to pursue after high school. Through this, a person will
be given a list of occupations that best fit his interest and aptitude, which makes for
an informed career decision-making.
TESDA Blue Desk Program
An Internet-based employment facilitation system that aims to assist all technical
vocational education and training (TVET) graduates in finding employment thru
referrals to or matching with employers, companies, and even national government
agencies looking for skilled workers.
It is a direct job facilitation assistance that can be extended not only by TESDA but
also by its partner TVET providers, including the LGUs. Blue Desk units may be
established in malls, Ecozones, or areas frequently visited by job seekers.
The Blue Desk units serve as the point office to facilitate and/or provide assistance
to job seekers thru the following:
Uploading/submission of the clients' resume in the manpower pool which is being
maintained by JobsDB and the TESDA portal. This is done thru the front-end system
of the web-based program created by TESDA and JobsDB for this purpose;
Companies who are looking for qualified workers can refer to the manpower pool as
a possible source of qualified job applicants, thereby ensuring the opportunity to
jobseekers of getting hired at any given time;

Local companies operating in Region III can also participate in the hiring process by
getting posted thru the back-end access of the Blue Desk web-based system.
Interested companies may submit their profile to TESDA for screening before it
receives the manpower pool data or the firms' job requirements are similarly posted
in the web-based program;
TESDA can also do referrals and job-matching of the clients resume against the
companies' posted need or job requirements thru the back-end system of the
program.
The referral and job matching activities, which is being done 'on-line', allows the
verification of employment data of partner-institutions. The Blue Desk System aims
to address the need of the industry by providing thru the web. The list of TVET
graduates in all parts of Central Luzon who are potential qualified manpower
resource to the industry.
Industries and companies spend considerable amount of money to advertise their
manpower needs and other form of scouting for the needed human resource. In this
system, there is no need for the company to advertise their manpower needs in-asmuch as the web containing the database of manpower inventory produced by
different institutions could be made readily available to their human resource
offices.
The web system however, requires subscription from a service provider who assists
TESDA in the on-line referral and job matching activities and as such may require
the institution for a fee. In this regard, it is requested that the institution's annual
fees for its subscription be subsidized by the companies. Expectedly, the
advertisement can get and attract applicants from the general public.
The following are the benefits of the system to our industry partners:
24/7 posting of job vacancies/requirements, hiring, promotion and advertisement
with unlimited access to worker's database
Estimated manpower pool of 130,000 skilled workers yearly from 477 registered
tech-voc institutions
Company information kept in a very reliable system with a minimal cost of only
Php55.00/day
TESDA Specialista Technopreneurship Program (see TESD Programs)
Coca-Cola-TESDA S3TAR Program (see TESD Programs)
DSWD-TESDA Cash for Training Program (see TESD Programs)

Type of Frontline Service

Fees*

Forms**

Processing Time Form

(Under normal
circumstances
per transaction)

ACCREDITATION

Application for Accreditation as

Competency Assessor

AC02/0108

1 hour

Applica

Issuance of Accreditation
Certificate to Competency Assessor

AC03/0108

20 minutes

Accred

Php 500.00

AC05/0108

Application for Accreditation as

Assessment Center

Issuance of Accreditation
Certificate as Assessment Center

Affidav

1 hour

Accred

Affidav
Php 3,000.00
per

AC13/0108

20 minutes

AC16/0108

qualification
ASSESSMENT

Filing of Application for

Assessment

Filing of Application for

Certification of Seafarers under
Revalidation

Form AC
17/0108
Php 200.00

Release of Assessment Results

of Seafarers under Revalidation

Filing of Application for

Assessment of New Seafarers

Php 800.00

50 minutes

Self As

Form S18/0301 50 minutes

Applica

Rev02/1204

10 minutes

Compe
Summ

Form 18/0401

50 minutes

Applica

CERTIFICATION

Filing of Request for

Certification/Authentification/

Php 30.00

20 minutes

Applica

Verification (CAV) of Scholastic Record

Filing Request for Special Order

15 minutes

Release of Special Order

20 minutes

Specia

Release of National Certification Php 50.00

(NC)/Certificate of Competency (COC)

1 hour

Nation
of Com

Request for Authentification of

Php 50.00
National Certificate (NC)/Certificate of
Competency (COC)

39 minutes

Certific

3 hours and 30
minutes

Applica

17 minutes

Enrollm

17 minutes

Reques

2 hours and 25
minutes

Applica

27 minutes

Enrollm

17 minutes

Reques

5 hours and 25
minutes

Particip

TRAINING

Availment of Training in a
Regional/Provincial Training Center
Application for Training
Registration/Enrollment Procedures

NMIS Form 01

Releasing of Certificate of Training

Availment of Training in a TESDA

School
Application for Training
Registration/Enrollment Procedures Php 1,540.00

NMIS Form 01

Releasing of Certificate of Training

SCHOLARSHIP

Availment of Training for Work

Scholarship Program (TWSP) for
External Customers

NMIS 01C


Availment of Private Education
Financial Assistance (PESFA)
Scholarship
REGISTRATION

Program Registration Unified

TVET Program, Registration and
Accreditation System (UTPRAS)

P 2,000.00

TESDA-SOP-01- 45 calendar days

F01

Progra
Checkl

Curricu
TESDA-SOP-01F02
TESDA-SOP-01F03
TESDA-SOP-01F04
TESDA-SOP-01F05
TESDA-SOP-01F06

List of
List of
List of

List of
Library

List of
Facilitie

List of
Facilitie

List of
Guidan
TESDA-SOP-01F07
TESDA-SOP-01F08
TESDA-SOP-01F09

TESDA-SOP-01F10

Trainer
Profess


Application for Accreditation on
Dual Training System (DTS)

1 hour
(Step 1 to Step 3)

TES
TVET P

Dua

Pro

Form
establi
docum

Let

Che

Dua
of Accr

Mon
System

Registration and Implementation

of Apprenticeship/Learnership
Program

Kash Form 01

3 to 5 days

Kash Form 02

Pledge

Applica
Appren
Progra

KasH Form 03

Curricu

KasH Form 04

Certific
Appren
than 2

Certific
author

KasH Form 05

Certific
Kash Form 06

Appren

Kash Form 07

Enrollm

NMIS Form 50
NMIS 100

Termin

BIR Form 1702

Individ

BIR Form 1800

Donor

CUSTOMER INQUIRY AND

FEEDBACK

Public Assistance Counter

CS Form 01

2 hours

Custom

PRE-QUALIFYING ASSESSMENT
Availment of Career Profiling at the
Career Guidance Center (CGC)

*Fees are subject to change

**Forms are available FREE OF CHARGE

2 hours and 39
minutes

CGC Re