1. 2-Year Diploma Courses:

   1. Computer Programming (IT)

   2. Computer Hardware Servicing (CHS)

   3. Bookkeeping (BIM)

   4. House Keepping (NC2)

   5. Food and Beverages (NC2)

 

Ladderized Education

1. What is ladderized education?

 

Ladderized education is a new system of education in the Philippines that allows learners to progress between technical-vocational education and training (TVET) and college, and vice-versa. Ladderized education opens opportunities for career and educational advancement to students and workers. (Executive Order 358, promulgated by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on September 15, 2004, provides the mandate and legal framework for wider-scale and accelerated implementation of Ladderized Education nationwide.)​

 

​2.Why choose ladderized education?

 

 

 

Traditionally, a college degree program is viewed as independent of tech-voc courses. Hence, when a tech-voc graduate decides to continue on to college, previous tech-voc courses that he has completed do not earn him credit units for an oncoming college degree program of his choice. Thus, the tech-voc graduate often squanders time and resources to repeat portions of his learning that should have already earned him appropriate credit unit/s for an oncoming college degree program. Ladderized education is the answer then to this wasteful duplication. Ladderization provides the tech-voc graduate with gateways or entry points to a college degree program where he can earn appropriate, equivalent credits for previous learning acquired in tech-voc. It also allows a learner to obtain a tech-voc national certificate that will enable him to arrive at successively ascending job platforms. The money he earns from his job/s will help to finance and complete his college education.

 

3. How can the Ladderized Education Program benefit me if I cannot afford a college education?

 

 

Scholarship opportunities in tech-voc and college education are available at Tesda and CHED, local government units, private companies, foundations and others. Information about these programs can be sourced from the nearest Tesda and CHED office in your area. Also, if you cannot afford college education, and have been unable to get any scholarship for the smaller cost of a six-month tech-voc course, you may enroll first in a tech-voc course to learn a specific occupation or trade—say, caregiving or food and beverage servicing—get a job in that In summary, you can eventually pursue and complete your college education with income from your job, and have your previously completed tech-voc courses credited for equivalent units in the college degree program you want to take.

 

4.Under ladderization, how can Tesda help me?

 

Tesda can help you in many ways, including: A. Helping you acquire the skills for a job. Tesda has a network of 121 Tesda technology institutions all over the country that provide mostly trade-based training courses. These courses are usually offered for free, or for a small fee, at the schools owned and operated by your government. However, Tesda also provides scholarship and student assistance to those who wish to attend private institutions, through its Private Education Student Financial Assistance (Pesfa) and Technical Education and Skills Development Project-Asian Development Bank (Tesdp-ADB) programs. Poor but deserving students, who do not have the means to get an education, can avail of these financial subsidies, which are open to high school graduates who meet the following qualifications: • must be a Filipino citizen; • must belong to a family whose annual gross income is not more than P120,000; • must not have taken any post-secondary or college units after high school graduation; • must have had a general grade average in high school of 80% or above; • must be physically and mentally fit to undergo training/education; • must not have any pending administrative or criminal charges; • must be of good moral character, as certified by the school principal; and • must not be a recipient of any other government scholarship grant of similar scheme. B. Providing you credit units earned in tech-voc courses that colleges and universities may recognize as equivalent credit units for their college degree programs. Tesda and CHED have mapped out a system of equivalent units and credits between tech-voc courses and college degree programs in selected disciplines. Under this credit matrix, units of competencies earned in tech-voc courses are given equivalent units in a relevant, ladderized college degree program.

 

5. Where can I get more details and information about ladderized education?

 

All other details and information on ladderized education are available at the nearest Tesda and CHED field offices in your area.

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