
Students who passed the Alternative Learning System (ALS) and the Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT).Students with earned units in college – whose weighted average is at least a passing grade for the last two (2) semesters and enrolled in identified priority courses in duly authorized public or private HEIs.High school graduates whose GWA is at least a passing grade and for graduating high school students whose GWA is at least a passing grade in the third year and in the first three grading periods of the fourth year and who will enroll in identified priority courses in duly authorized public or private HEIs.The TULONG DUNONG is a Grants-in-Aid (GIA) under the Student Financial Assistance Programs (StuFAPS) of Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Out of the 25 graduates, twenty passed the TESDA NC II and one of them was already employed.The CHED-Tulong Dunong Scholarship is intended for the high schoolgraduates whose GWA is at least a passing grade and for graduating high school students whose GWA is at least a passing grade in the third year and in the three grading periods of the fourth year and who will enroll in identified priority courses in duly authorized public or private HEIs. The recent training was conducted with the full support of First In Learning Electronics (FILE) Training Center, Inc. TESDA Provincial Director Carlos Flores hinted that TESDA will continuously partner with DOLE in the implementation of programs for workers, particularly in skills training. Laurel Mayor Randy James Amo, inspired by the outcome of the program, plans to open a vocational school in the municipality in October 2012.

In a simple graduation ceremony held at the Laurel Multi-Purpose Gym, DOLE Batangas Provincial Director Predelma Tan encouraged the graduates to use DOLE’s PhilJobNet system to market their new found skills. TESDA Director Carlos Flores (right) looks at the graduates and their parents (photo below). The joint DOLE and TESDA programs enabled the 25 young Batangueños to be competent workers capable of professionally earning for their families.ĭOLE Provincial Director Predelma Tan (3rd from left) looks on as a graduate received his training certificate from Laurel Mayor Randy James Amo (4th from left). Each graduate received P5,556.00 after the 49-day training and a certificate proving their knowledge and skills required by local and foreign companies.

Twenty five (25) out-of-school youths completed training on Computer Hardware Servicing under the Department of Labor and Employment’s Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority’s (TESDA) Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) convergence program on poverty alleviation in Laurel, Batangas.
