New TESDA deals focus on medical transcriptionists, bartenders



Looking to further strengthen and expand its partnership with the private sector, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has inked agreements with two organizations to enhance the skills of potential workers.

The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Healthcare Information Management Outsourcing Association of the Philippines (HIMOAP) will involve P16.275 million worth of scholarship vouchers that will train 1,550 individuals.

This will be sourced from TESDA's Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP). 

The MOA with Ginebra San Miguel (GSM) Inc., on the other hand, will provide training and livelihood opportunities to 180 beneficiaries in selected areas through the TESDA Specialista Technopreneurship Program (TSTP).  The project is in celebration of Ginebra San Miguel’s 180 years.

"TESDA's continued partnership with the private sector is a display of palpable sense of optimism in the country's technical vocational education and training," TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva said.

"Here's an assurance that investments in the Filipino skills will always yield quality workforce needed by the industries," Villanueva added.

The 180 beneficiaries under the agreement with GSM will undergo entrepreneurial and bartending training course.  TESDA will conduct the training, while the beverage firm will provide the fund, for training and livelihood opportunity through the provision of a mobile bar, including needed materials such as one set of uniform for each trainee, mobile bar tools, and a set of starter products.

With HIMOAP, TESDA will tap its partner technical vocational institutions to provide Medical Transcription Finishing Course NC II to the 1,550 beneficiaries.  The training duration will be 160 hours. 

According to the agreement, the partners committed an employment rate of at least 80 percent within six months from the scholar's graduation.

HIMOAP also pledged to formulate a fund replenishment scheme to extend the mileage of the scholarship program.

A contribution to a Talent Development Fund will be made by a HIMOAP-member company every time it absorbs or hires successful graduates. The Talent Development Fund will be developed, managed, and utilized solely by HIMOAP to sustain training of their needed workforce.

Signing the agreement were Villanueva for TESDA,  JosefinaLauchangco for HIMOAP, and  Bernard Marquez for Ginebra San Miguel.

HIMOAP President Penny Lauchancao and Sec. Joel Villanueva exchange documents after signing the MOA between TESDA and HIMOAP. Looking on are IBPAP President Jomari Mercado, TESDA and HIMOAP officials.

GSMI Presodent Bernard Marquez and TESDA Secretary Joel Villanueva sign the MOA between TESDA and GSMI. Witnesses are Deputy Director General Teodoro Pascua of TESDA and Camille Buenaventura of San Miguel Foundation and Roxanne Angela Milan of GSMI.

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