With the issuance of TESDA Order 920 series of 2024, the Industry TVET Board (ITB) and Enterprise-Based Training (EBT) Refresh: A Zonal Handholding Activity, and the Zonal Batch for Mindanao is conducted on December 12-13, 2024 at New Dawn Hotel, in Cagayan de Oro City.
The delegates from TESDA Region XI are headed by the Regional Director, RD Ashary A. Banto, with representatives from each provincial offices in the region (Ms. Kristi Donna N. Paredes, Ms. Lorelle A. Mahipus, Ms. Sheila M. Edullantes, Mr. Jonathan J. Jandulang, Ms. Ruth R. De Castro, Ms. Wena C. Tinio, and Mr. Francis Rey Q. Buñawan), from Industry Partners, and one from TESDA Technology Institutions, with the sole participant is coming from the Regional Training Center – Korea-Philippines Vocational Training Center (RTC-KPVTC) Davao’s Industry Coordinator, Mr. Joie Vincent R. Dagohoy.
The aim of the activity is for the discussion of the salient features of the new law, RA 12063, or the Enterprise-Based Education and Training (EBET) Framework Act, with the goal to draft of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) with inputs coming from the implementers of each region. The event was facilitated by the Central Office (CO), in the person of Assistant Executive Director Lorriene Judith Marie Juanani and Atty. Clefford E. Pascual.
It is expected that in the following years, the direction of TESDA will shift its focus towards enterprise-based trainings and programs in accordance with the new EBET Framework Act. The TESDA, especially RTC-KPVTC Davao, will support the endeavors of this act.