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HOPE springs for Boholano blue collar workers who may not have the money for the often costly certifications and assessments to be fully recognized to have the right skills needed for a new job offered through the electronic Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (e-TESDA) and the PGMA Free Assessment Services at TESDA (PGMA-FAST).

And if things run well, would be TESDA scholars and workers interested to go through the assessments and certifications process to gauge their skills and match them for a job or before getting the higher training can just breeze through the process for free, by surfing the net and going to e-TESDA.

Assessment is an important step to determine the level of qualifications of a student. This eliminates unnecessary subjects and gauges what higher courses the student or worker can still enroll, TESDA’s Dr. Fanny Opo hinted in a phone interview.

Moreover, assessment and certification makes job-ready individuals formally recognized – a useful credit when they apply for advance courses or work.

In Bohol however, while some people may have been aptly trained by the competency based training system adopted by TESDA, they still need to get the right certification and the skills assessment to get that paycheck and be listed in some company’s payroll.

With the development, the national goal of spurring as many jobs to fully beat poverty is also attained, observers have said during the Manila launching.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally launched in Malacanang the two TESDA programs.

With the ladderized trainings offered at TESDA, a skilled trainee may land a job and then access more training by tapping to the e-TESDA online free assessment and certifications after getting competency upgrades and training.

For example, a house and building wiring student may used to need P2T or more to get the assessment and certification before he can get his credentials to land him the job he needs, PGMA FAST makes assessments and certifications virually free for him, the TESDA officer in charge for the day explains.

This also allows worldwide access to the assessments that even the returning overseas Filipino workers, out of school youth and the persons with disabilities can just got to the nearest internet-café and get the government certification or assessment they have attained from work, reports said.

Before one can avail of TESDA courses, a student needs to go through assessment of credentials and qualifications.

This is part of the stringent procedure implemented to would-be TESDA students, sources at the government skills training authority bared.

And in the effort to provide its courses to more people, TESDA is giving the assessment and certification services, TESDA sources pressed.

With PGMA-FAST, even poor but deserving students and workers can avail of TESDA courses, thereby widening the number of beneficiaries. (rachiu/PIA)

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