MISAMIS ORIENTAL (PIA) – The Technical Education Skills and Development Authority Region 10 – Regional Training Center Tagoloan (TESDA RTC-Tagoloan) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with 14 of its industry partners for the Supervised Industry Learning (SIL) program designed to enhance its Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) learners the knowledge, skills, and attitude through actual experience in the workplace.

“Exposing TVET learners to work realities through sufficient industry or workplace experience prior to graduation will further hone their skills including soft skills or life skills which would prepare them to be work-ready,” said TESDA 10 – RTC Tagolan Center Administrator Mario S. Labisig.

TESDA 10 regional director Ashary Banto, meanwhile, assured its industry partners that despite the advent of the change of leadership in the Area Based Demand Driven (ABDD) -TVET, the industry-based training and the engagement of the industry will continue to be prioritized.

“One of the modalities to capture the area based demand-driven TVET is the forging or crafting of a Supervised Industry Learning. That is the reason why we are very grateful that through the initiative of RTC-Tagoloan, we hope that the training institutions of TESDA will take a lead role in trying to approximate this paradigm,” Banto added.

The 14 industry partners that inked the MOA are Rural Transit of Mindanao, Inc, Bamboo Ecologic Export Philippines, Inc., Pryce Gases, Inc., Allied Multi-Purpose Cooperative,  First Asian Metal Corporation, Vifel Ice Plant and Cold Storage, Inc., Top Forest Development Inc., Japuz computer services and accessories, Metro Cool Air Engineering Services, Sysware Computer Services, Corbox Corporation, Minergy Power Corporation, Solar energy electric power distribution services, and Red Sea Agro-industrial corporation. (JAKAraña/PIA10)