MANILA, Philippines – To enable the country to produce more college graduates and competent workers, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is pressing for the passage of a measure strengthening the existing ladderized education program (LEP).
TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva said institutionalizing the LEP would provide the thousands of technical vocational education and training (TVET) graduates other career options.
“Ladderized education will provide TVET trainees and workers with the opportunities for career and educational progression; as well as facilitate the establishment of a seamless and borderless education and training system that allows mobility in terms of flexible entry and exit into the education system,” Villanueva explained.
Through LEP, Villanueva said a TVET student may obtain college units and eventually earn a diploma after progressing through TESDA’s training programs and college classes.
By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) Updated November 04, 2010