Jinggoy: Gov’t must have better job skills plan
MALACAÑANG must devise and apply a comprehensive job-skill matching strategy in the country’s education system so students can acquire skills that are most in-demand for local and overseas employment.
Senate Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada made the suggestion as he warned of another uncertainty of employment among graduates this year.
He noted that the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that nearly 6,000 commercial establishments in the country, especially in Metro Manila, expressed difficulties in filling various job openings because applicants supposed “lack the needed skills.”
BLES said majority of employers wanted, among others: revisions in the country’s education curriculum to focus on key subjects, as well as more government investments on human resources. It also urged subsidies to private education or more scholarship grants in critical courses.
Estrada, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, earlier warned of a “deepening crisis on skilled manpower, posing a major problem for the national economy,”
“Every year, we are producing millions of graduates, but fewer and fewer skilled ones are able to get employment in local and overseas industries.
“This year, another batch of our young citizens will be graduating from school, but are they equipped with the needed skills for employment?” Estrada asked.
He cited a 2007 report of the National Statistics Office that at around 1.1 million college graduates were among the 2.8 million jobless in the country.
“We must come up with doable action plans to ensure that the country’s educational and technical-vocational (tech-voc) curricula are geared toward developing skills most in-demand for local and overseas jobs,” he added.
Among Estrada’s proposals are:
A trainee-and-apprenticeship program for third to fourth-year high school students to help them in choosing careers;
An 18-month similar program, but with pay, for graduates of Technical and vocational courses to enhance their skills;
And a technical education charge loan program for students and out-of-school youths who would take up tech-voc courses and pay the loans after getting jobs in the country or abroad, with a minimal interest of about 12 percent per year. By: Bernadette E. Tamayo - Journal online
Senate Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada made the suggestion as he warned of another uncertainty of employment among graduates this year.
He noted that the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that nearly 6,000 commercial establishments in the country, especially in Metro Manila, expressed difficulties in filling various job openings because applicants supposed “lack the needed skills.”
BLES said majority of employers wanted, among others: revisions in the country’s education curriculum to focus on key subjects, as well as more government investments on human resources. It also urged subsidies to private education or more scholarship grants in critical courses.
Estrada, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, earlier warned of a “deepening crisis on skilled manpower, posing a major problem for the national economy,”
“Every year, we are producing millions of graduates, but fewer and fewer skilled ones are able to get employment in local and overseas industries.
“This year, another batch of our young citizens will be graduating from school, but are they equipped with the needed skills for employment?” Estrada asked.
He cited a 2007 report of the National Statistics Office that at around 1.1 million college graduates were among the 2.8 million jobless in the country.
“We must come up with doable action plans to ensure that the country’s educational and technical-vocational (tech-voc) curricula are geared toward developing skills most in-demand for local and overseas jobs,” he added.
Among Estrada’s proposals are:
A trainee-and-apprenticeship program for third to fourth-year high school students to help them in choosing careers;
An 18-month similar program, but with pay, for graduates of Technical and vocational courses to enhance their skills;
And a technical education charge loan program for students and out-of-school youths who would take up tech-voc courses and pay the loans after getting jobs in the country or abroad, with a minimal interest of about 12 percent per year. By: Bernadette E. Tamayo - Journal online
Labels: apprenticeship, skills development, TESDA, voc-tec
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