Capiz now has 10 accredited ladderized education schools
Roxas City -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has registered ten tertiary schools in the province that offer Ladderized Education Program (LEP) starting June this year.
The schools that have been registered by TESDA under the Unified TVET Program Registration and Accreditation System in view of the program are Filamer Christian College (FCC), Colegio dela Purisima Concepcion (CPC), Hercor College, PACE Computer College, Dumalag Vocational and Technical School (DVTS), and Capiz State University (CapSu) -- Roxas City (main), Dayao, Sigma, Mambusao, and Pontevedra campuses.
Secretary Augusto Syjuco, director-general of TESDA, said "ladderized education is like a stairway, with each step a stepping stone towards the next higher level, like caregivers who graduate to nursing aides, and could then go on to college and take up Nursing, with all their previous TESDA courses credited by the college or university that they will be attending."
The TESDA head discussed the merits of LEP with Malacañang reporters during the launching of TESDA's Language Skills Institute in Taguig City.
He revealed that TESDA's ladderized curriculum has a 98-percent awareness rating and already has 73-percent acceptance by the targeted population.
Syjuco also explained that the ladderized curriculum only requires that enrollees be high school graduates, while the PGMA "Training for Work" scholarship accepts any applicant regardless of educational attainment.
The ladderization of all academic courses was mandated by Executive Order 358 as early as three years ago, revealed Syjuco, who noted that CHED commissioners had divided the number of universities and colleges among themselves at 21 schools per commissioner; and that one commissioner had completed ladderizing his/her 21 assigned schools of higher learning.
(PIA/A.Lumaque)