Students need Values Education Emphasis

The video is taken inside the University of the East Compound. While some are very concern some still have time to laugh and say ANG SAYA...




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Teacher's ICT Workshop and Conference 2009

DepEd Memo 239, s.2009

UNESCO Next generation of Teachers: First Philippines Conference on ICT in Teacher Education.

The conference will be helod in different venues with the following planned parallel workshops: Peer Coaching, Intel Teach: Web 2.0 Tools, ICT Integration and Curriculum Development.



The UP College of Education will conduce the UNESCO Next Generation of Teachers: Fist Philippines Conference on Information Communications Technology (ICT) in Teacher Education on Oct 26-30, 2009 at UP Diliman, QC.

The objectives are enhance participants skills in ICT integration in teaching and learning, develop action plan in implementing and sharing acquired ICT skills and plan collaborative research on integrating technology in instruction.

participants are teachers and school administrators from public and private schools.

Registration fee is P4000. Pls contact Dr. Vivien Talisayon, Dean of UP College of Education at 02-981-8500 or email:ced@up.edu.ph.


DepEd Memo 239, s.2009
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Teacher's Month - Suggested Activities

2009 Teacher's Month Campaign - Suggested Activities

All public and private elementary and secondary schools are encouraged to cooperate in the campaign through the following:

1. During the month, everyone who has ever been a student is invited to say "THANK  YOU" to at least one 1 teacher who has made a difference in his or her life. Students can write a letter, send a card or offer a gift;
2. Schools may conduct special activities to honor teachers during the one month period and a major event on October 5 2009.
3. Schools can help disseminated information on the campaign and feature stories or write ups of teaching/teachers through their school organs/papers and websites;

4. Schools can tap their Alumni Associations, PTA, SSG and other school based clubs or organization to initiate their own projects in support of the campaign;
5. Insofar as practicable and possible, all DepEd Division shall mobilize the support of the community in paying tribute to teachers (such as commercial and retail outlet can offer discounts and freebies or special promo for teachers for  a period during the month leading to Oct 5) and
6. Schools shall hang stress / tarpaulins honoring teachers during the month long celebration.

All DepEd Officials are encouraged to actively lead all activities for this month long event for teachers. Immediate and wide dissemintaion of this DepED Momorandum is desired.

 DepEd Memo 378 s. 2009
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HS Training Workshop about Integrating Democracy in the Classroom

DepEd Advisory No.165 s 2009

PROJECT CITIZEN PHILIPPINES

The Philippine Center for Civic Education and Democracy and the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc with he support of the University of Asia and the Pacific through the Institute of Political Economy and the Center for Civic Education based in Calabasas California USA will hold the project Citizen Philippines 2009.

Project Citizen is an international program, developed by the Center for Civic Education in the United State for increasing democratic participation, political efficacy and civic engagement levels of students at the high school level. It is a pedagogy that systematically trains the teacher-moderators in embedding education for democracy in the classroom while simultaneously providing a venue for student s to participate in community problem solving and applying their lessons in citizenship in real life. Thus it aims to connect the classroom learning of students on their rights and duties as citizens with the community work that immerses them in real world experience. In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principles,tolerance, and feeling of political efficacy. In connection with the project, training workshops will be provided for public secondary school teachers at the University of Asia and the Pacific campus on the following dates:

July 9 11 Batch 1 NCR Telengtan Hall UA&P
July 30 - Aug 1 Batch 2 Greater Manila Telengtan Hall, UA&P

Meal and training materials will be provided free of charge while transportation and lodging will be charge to personal funds.

For inquiry, contact Monica Ang at 02- 637-0912 locs 323 and 339. Email:citizenship.ph@gmail.com


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List of Private School with Permit to Operate needed for Posting

DepEd Order 51
Series of 2009

Posting of List of Private Schools with Permit to Operate Recognition or Accreditation in Conspicuous Places


All regional Directors
School Division Superintendents
Head of Private Schools

1. Pursuant to DepED Order No 34 S 2007 and 30 s 2008, this office requires all regional offices to submit list of names and addresses of private schools with permit to operation, recognition or accreditation within their respective area of responsibility to the office of the Undersecretary for Regional Operations at telefax no 02 -631-5492 on or before May 29, 2009.

2. The DepEd offices are encourage to advise to the parents to check whether the private schools where they intend to enroll their children is duly permitted or recognized by the Department of Education - DepED.

3. Pupils or student who finished an a grade level from school without permit are required to take Philippine Validating Test - PVT prior to admission to validate the acquired learning gains.

For more details..


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Proportional Vacation Pay for Teachers

DepEd Memorandum 207 Series of 2009

Computation of Proportional Vacation Pay for Teachers for school year 2008-2009

To all Teachers

1. This is to provide the field offices with uniform basis in the computation of the Proportional Vacation Pay that an elementary and secondary teacher under the teachers leave basis is entitle to.

2. Teacher who have rendered continuous services for this School Year from June 10, 2008 to April 3, 2009 shall be entitle to 74 days Proportional Vacation Pay including Christmas Vacation days from April 4 to May 31 2009 computed as follows.

Total no of days service = 298
(June 10, 2008 to April 3, 2009)

Less Christmas Vacation Days = -16 days
(Dec 20 to Jan 4 2009)

Actual days served = 282 days
Multiply factor x 0.262

Total PVP including Christmas vacation = 74 days
Less Christmas Vacation = -16 days
PVP earned from April 4 to May 31 2009 = 58 days

For complete computation of derivation factor visit here.

Factor 0.262 shall be used for the computation of absences and PVP this school year.

Immediate dissemination of this DepEd Memorandum

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10 Suggested Criteria for Selection of Learning Experiences

1. Can the experience bring optimum benefit to the learners? Take and second look in your exercises and ask yourself if these exercises or activities can be replicated by the learners when they go outside in the school. Would this activities serve as the mirror on what is happening in their surrounding or just a house work and duties so the same conclusion can be applied in the situation that recall the learning experiences?

2. Does the experience help meet the evident needs of the learner? Many students will be self motivated if they discover that the activities are timely to their needs. The learner might have a term paper project and it is very timely that your subject matter is about word processor software. You will notice the aggressiveness of the student to learn the PowerPoint presentation because they have classroom report or oral examination from other subjects and they like to deliver it with the help of ICT. The learner might be task to create or design a classroom newsletter and it timely that you demonstrate the use of MS publisher application software.


3. Are the learners likely to be interested in the experience? As the teachers, it is your task to device an activities that will arouse the interest of the learner. Let said you are Social Studies teacher your topic is about historical account in the landing of the Allied Soldiers in the beach of Normandy. For the high school student, this event might not be relevant to them yet once presented with the motion pictures together the possible scenarios if this famous event did not happen what will be the future of the countries involve including the learners country and their fore fathers. Bringing the topics or discussion into the personal level of the learner is a great method to attain the appreciation objective.

4. Does the experience encourage the learners to inquire further? This is the best opportunity of a good subject matter, a well delivered lesson complement by lively exercises and by a dramatic generalization. Have you noticed your student leaving the classroom characterized by silent and thinking mode? Inferring on the previous situation and organizing thoughts from the lesson. Have you experienced by a situation whereby the student approach you and said “Sir I have answered all the exercises in Chapter 5”. So you will say, very good you advance already. You might have a situation in which the student said Sir teaches me to how do create a form using excel program please. Then your answer is “that would be the next topic young man”. You could experience the situation where the student approached you and show her work which not included in the assignment. That would be a great application of learning experience and an evident of transfer of learning.

Lastly, you might experience this as a teacher. Dong, ni unsa nimo pag buhat ana, tudlo I ako bi? (James how did you do that? Demonstrate it to me right away). Then I call the attention of the entire class to watch the demonstration as part of strategy of praise and motivation as well as collaborative learning’s.

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5. Does the experience stimulate the learners to engage in higher levels of thinking and reasoning?

6. Does the experience involve the use of different senses and sense perceptions?
7. Does the experience approximate real life situations?
8. Is the experience in accord with the life patterns of the learners?
9. How contemporary is the experience? Is it timely and relevant?
10. Do the experiences provide for the attainment of a range of instructional objectives?



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Civil Service - Career Executive Examination

The Career Executive Service Board Examination was set by the Civil Service Commission for 2009. It will be held in Manila, Cebu and Davao simultaneously. It is offered to qualified applicants from Government and private companies holding a executive positions. This is a third level class in the group of career positions in civil service. The examination was schedule in June 28, 2009. Walk-in written exam which will be held in Manila. The dates are March 27, August 28, October 23 and December 11.

Qualified applicants must be a Filipino citizen of good moral character and must possess the following requirements: for those Government service, he or she must be appointed to CES position, or designated in an acting capacity or Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of a CES position or at least six months, or must have been appointed to at least a Division Chief Position (SG-24) and possesses three years of managerial experience.

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Teacher's Should be Equip with a Caliber of Intelligence and a Vast Repertoire of Experiences

Academic excellence is indispensable to a quality of education. Teacher in any public and private school should equip with a caliber of intelligence and a vast repertoire of experiences. He is an agent for change. Education lies in his capability to develop things into perspectives. In general, the teacher should be a model of everything.

Quality of education is very important nowadays. In order to upgrade the standard of the learning institution, see to it that the teacher-applicants must pass the criteria for eligibility issued by PRC through CHED, in support of DEP ED for approval. It’s hard to find ones at present with utmost dedication and integrity of their professions. That’s why the school must accept negative articles to whoever writers put them on a little bit ambiguity. The purpose is not to degrade or defame the school but to put it on a high pedestal by checking irregularities through constructive criticisms.


Integrity of the professions, as well as disciplines that will provide quality of education for the nation is consequently the fundamental mileage geared towards deregulation and reorientation of programs for teaching competencies. Integrity sustains professional upgrading or development not only of the professionals but also of the teachers through revitalization of existing school-based and structured-learning action cells. Entry to the teaching profession shall commence with a teacher profile program. A career progression scheme for teachers, administrators and specialists shall be developed. Relatively, this is the denouement of disciplines paving the way for academic excellence.

The most important factor in attaining quality of education is the teacher for he is the central figure in all teaching activities and the child is the heart of the matter. The teacher takes over the starring role of leading the young under his charge to become useful, upright and law-abiding member of the society. The teacher’s role and responsibility is to serve as value developer, model and advocate. He acts as adviser, facilitator, friend, parent or even architect. In other words, the teacher is to be called an agent of change. The change that can forever help all the learners and even the people within the community to augment in terms of financial and physical aids for the benefits of everybody.

The teacher’s role, therefore, in our society is very wide enough and he is considered the most important factor in the attainment of quality of education. He possesses love, patience, kindness and understanding to the needs of the children and the community. He works well with the barangay officials, religious and civic leaders. He attends community assemblies, workshops and seminars. He encourages food production and acts as model to have tangible projects.

So, with many challenges that confront our country, let’s move forward in unity and strive for the improvement on the quality of education and for the realization of vision of the Philippines which means that education will not have only achieved that quality long-sought for and desired by everyone but most importantly, education by then will be globally competitive. Teachers are the implementers of the system. We should be proud of our teachers. Our future lies in them.


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Miracle in DepEd Program

The Senate and Congressman unanimously agreed to increase the budget from 3 Billion peso to 8 billion for the classroom building in our public school. This is amazing development in our public education since never in the fast happen this kind of drastic budget change.

Most schools at to the present have a classroom population of 60-80 on the average. It mean 2 section in one classroom giving pain to the public school teachers but also to the students. Since there will be new classroom, we can expect new teachers to fill the gap.

The Chairman of the Senate committee on education, Sen. Mar Roxas (the same person who gave us 20 computers- pcps 1 and 2) said the budget will be use to build about 11,000 thousand classrooms both for Elementary and High School.

The Senators also said they realign P1.927 Billion from other government agencies in favor of DepED while another P1.17 was realigned to State College and Universities.

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First aid training for Teachers

San Fernando City - "Teachers are expected to serve as second parents to their students, and should therefore be extra caring about their (students) health and safety the way real parents are," the DepEd said.

To ensure parents and guardians of their child's safety and health in school, the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) and the Department of Education (Dep Ed) joined hands in promoting first aid programs in public elementary and secondary schools, also enjoining state universities and colleges in the locality.

The aim to keep or maintain a child-friendly environment for the students, the PNRC has started its moves to mobilize their active Red Cross Youth Council and conducted standard First Aid training and Basic Life Support (BLS) - cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) trainings for the year 2008.

Various first aid training skills and knowledge have been taught especially for teachers to ensure that they are equipped with first aid skills and knowledge which they can use to protect their students.

According to Almira V. Abrazado, Chapter Administrator, PNRC-LU Chapter, the type of trainings given are: Standard First Aid Training and Basic Life support for caregivers; BLS-CPR Training for Healthcare Providers; Other First Aid courses like First Aid in the Campus & BLS-CPR for Healthcare Providers; First Aid Training in the Campus & Adult - CPR Training for Lay Rescuers both for college students; - in the secondary level First Aid Training in the Campus; BLS- Adult CPR training for Lay Rescuers; in the elementary level, Junior First Aiders program (Organizational Strategy Training and First Aid in the Campus Training for teachers of DepEd District I & II; and First Aid training for Juniors and Leadership Development Training program in the different Elementary schools in the province.

This is in action to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's directive for the DepEd to include first-aid instruction s in the school curriculum, noting some tragic stories of deaths and survivals of schoolchildren involved in accident in schools. (PIA La Union)
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Put into practice what you have learned

"DepEd must have managers who are strategists and visionaries and who can provide the momentum to sustain our education reform agenda," said Education Secretary Jesli Lapus as he addressed some 113 DepEd midlevel managers who finished the Management Leadership Development Training under the auspices of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).

"Put into practice what you have learned. As lead learners, you must model the change you wish to see in the workplace. We expect so much from you," he stressed.

The midlevel managers from DepEd central and regional offices underwent a 43-day training which was conducted by the Meralco Management and Leadership
Development Center (MMLDC) Foundation Inc. for the Philippines Australia Human Resource Development Facility (PAHRDF) and DepEd.

This capacity development is a direct response of the PAHRDF to the DepEd's effort to hasten the integration of the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda
(BESRA) into the DepEd organizational culture.

Lapus explained, "Our core competence can only be as strong as the skill that each member of this organization possesses. This is why we are investing in
the retooling of our people. "

BESRA is a package of policy reforms that aims to put in place an education system that is able to deliver a sustainable quality education for all Filipino
children.

Participants were trained to demonstrate improved appreciation of their roles and apply innovative leadership techniques to help nurture and develop staff
competencies.

The first part, held in August-September 2008, was a 7-day residential training entitled "BESRA and Me." The participants were grouped into four batches to
achieve a high level of management training.

The managers also received 35 days of Executive Coaching from October-November 2008. PAHRDF fielded several coaches to provide face to face coaching for the participants in their respective workplace for the implementation of
their Leadership Action Plan.

Lapus commended participants for their hard work and dedication to achieve the target outcomes of this training despite competing priorities in the office.

"As mid-level managers, you have the energy, the capability and the competence to influence the transformation we seek," he said.

The Australian Government, one of the country's largest bilateral grant donors, has earmarked some A$30 million (approximately P1.03 billion) to DepEd in
2008 giving it a wider financial berth to pursue its BESRA.

PIA Press Release
2008/12/19

Principals and Teachers urged to optimize existing ICT programs

Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Jesli Lapus calls for the optimum
use of information and communication technology to deliver quality education
and enhance institutional efficiency worthy of the 21st century.
Lapus sounded the call during the National Educators Congress in Baguio City
where he also cited the department’s effort to provide ICT-enriched learning
materials, internet connectivity and computer laboratories to public schools
through the assistance of the private sector.

The DepEd Chief stressed that “it is about time that we effectively use ICT in
teaching and learning as well as in managing the delivery of services.”
Some of the sessions on the second day of this year’s Educators’ Congress will
focus on ICT tools that can be used to enhance productivity among teachers,
school heads, education managers, and field office administrators.
These sessions aim to provide real and live examples of practices of DepEd’s
ICT partners.

“Introducing new stuff to educators and learners can be useless if they cannot
harness and build on existing ICT initiatives,” said Lapus.
Ayala Foundation, Intel, USAID, SMART, Oracle and Microsoft are just some of
the institutions that support DepEd in its goal to bring digital literacy to Filipino
students and make them competitive with our more progressive neighbors.
DepEd has increased its ICT-related efforts to sustain the initiatives that these
groups have started. Just this year, Lapus instructed the department’s budget
chief to provide additional operating funds to schools which have dropped
connections to cover internet subscription fees and incremental electric
consumption charges.

Lapus explained that “Before I assumed leadership at DepEd, the department
has several programs that, when improved, continues to be relevant to our
public schools. Alongside the creation of new programs on digital literacy, there
is still a need to build on and continue existing meritorious programs.”
The department’s ICT4E or Information Communication Technology for
Education – the strategic plan of which has just been completed – builds on
earlier efforts, strategies, and interventions developed by DepEd in partnership
with its stakeholders. It is a road map on what, when, where, why, and how
DepEd will employ and integrate ICT in the delivery of learning competencies
initially in the core subjects of English, Science, and Mathematics.

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Damaged books due to termites common in public School

The Department of Education’s (DepEd) Instructional Materials Council
Secretariat (IMCS) is investigating the incident of damaged books which were
infected by termites at the DepEd Central Office.

Undersecretary for Programs and Projects Vilma Labrador reported to DepEd
Secretary Jesli Lapus that the 420 damaged books were awaiting shipment to
public school recipients.

“Since the program started, many of the department’s private sector donors had
been generous with their support, and we actually distributed nine truckloads
containing over 280,000 textbooks in our last estimate to many schools across
the Bicol region,” said Labrador.
Lapus said that “we, too, are very disappointed with this. Although those 420
books is small as compared to the 280,000 donated by publishers, these could
have been used by 420 kids who may not have it.”

The Education Chief added that “precisely because we are working on less than
ideal conditions, I have been relentlessly reminding our officials that wastage will
never be tolerated, and that we should avoid problems like this in the future.
DepEd is making sure that our limited resources are protected.”
IMCS Director Socorro Pilor further reported that “DepEd has no storage
facilities. We had to store the books in the only available place in the central
office.”

The leftover cache of some 2,600 textbooks was temporarily stored in boxes,
and was awaiting shipment to needy public schools in the country.
The books that were damaged after termites had found their way into the boxes
were broken down as follows: Grade 1 (Science and Health) – 51; Grade 2
(Science and Health) – 46; Grade 4 (Science and Health) – 314; Third Year
High School Chemistry – 9.

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Teachers are still happy even

We are still lucky.

1. Even the salary is not enough for the family.
2. Even we are always overloads.
3. Even our students are more than 40.
4. Even you are not able to prepare good test questions, incomplete lesson log and not updated class records.
5. Even many of our students are no longer attending classes.
6. Even our Leaders is not listening to us.
7. Even students learned below your expectations.
8. Even you are thrown to lower section.
9. Even we never hear our school leader's wisdom and vision in Education
10. Even we do not know if there still solution to our school system.

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National Observance of the week for the gifted and talented

DepEd Memorandum 525 s 2008

2008 National Observance of the week for the gifted and talented.

To:
Bureau Directors
Dir of Services
Regional Directors
Schools Division/City Superintendents
Heads, Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools.

1. Every fourth week of November, the nation observes National Week for the Gifted and Talented, an event declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 199 signed on Oct 19, 1999. This years celebration will be observed on November 24-28 2008 with the theme "Building Gifts into Talents".

2. The Celebration aims to strenthen public awareness on the education of the gifted and telented in the country.

3. All private/public SPED centers, including the regular schools with organized classes/programs for the gifted and telented are encouraged to undertake any of the ff activities.

a. Visual and performing arts competition
b. arts and crafts exhibits
c. academic competitions
d. education fiedl trips to museums, science centrum
f. fun games and sports activities
g. symposia on parenting the gifted and talented on meeting their needs
h. lectueres on building gifts into telents of these learners and
i other related activities.

4. The observance should be made part of the regualr classroom activities to avoid disruption of classes and to mazimixe time for learining. (DepED Order No 9 s 2005)

5. Please call SPED-BEE Central office at tel 02-631-9993 for more information. Wide dissemination of this Memo is desired.

Franklin C. Sunga
Undersecretary

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DepEd Health Program for School

DepEd Memorandum 506 , S 2008

ZERO CAVITY MISSION PROJECT

1. Pursuant to DepED Order No 73 s 2007 entitled Promoting Oral health in Public Elementary Schools and the Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Program jointly implremented with Colgate Palmolive Philippines Inc., DepED throught Health and Nutrition Center and Adopt a school program and the Department of Education Dentist Association emark on a ZERO CAVITY MISSION PROJECT with aims to address the high prevalence of oral health problems among school children.

2. Tje CPPI Dental Van fully euipped with dental supplies and materils will be visiting 50 selected schools nationwide. Preventive and curative services will be provided by school dentists and voulunteer dentists from partner agencies to Grade I pupils. and toothbrushing drills and oral health promotion activities will also be conductiedc to reinforce the 7 o'clock toothbrushing habit beign implemented in schools.

3. The project will be lauched at P. Bernardo Elementary School. P. Tuazon St, uezon City On Nov 5 and several schools will be visited this SY 2008-2009.

See the memo for school name and details.
DM 506 s 2008

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Sec. Lapus hit the right person in his speech

Secretary Jesli Lapus recently urged members of the Liga ng mga Barangay – Quezon Chapter to contribute to DepEd's efforts to reach out to more out of school learners and achieve the national government's goal of making education for all a reality.

"The country's economic future rests on the caliber of our current crop of students – they will comprise the country's labor force until 2060, and this is why we need to heavily invest in public education – both formal and non-formal," said Lapus.

He cited People's Champ Manny Pacquiao as a champion not only of boxing, but also of alternative education. "In spite of his achievements in sports, Manny still saw the need to finish high school. That's why he took the Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Exam by DepEd to acquire a high school diploma and pursue college. Pacquiao is taking up a business degree at the Notre Dame of Dadiangas in General Santos City and is doing well," added Lapus.

The A&E Exam is open to all out-of-school youth who wish to pursue higher education or enter the world of work. DepEd administers it twice a year.

There are many ways by which barangays can help. They can pay the honorarium of alternative
learning teachers, or provide community learning centers where out of school youth and adults can take alternative modes of learning.

Barangay officials can also provide transportation for mobile teachers. Meanwhile, the
Sangguniang Kabataan can do their share by encouraging OSY learners to join alternative learning classes.

In the absence of a mobile teacher in a community, barangay officials can identify potential alternative education facilitators in the barangay who can be trained by DepEd. The barangay can also shoulder the cost for the reproduction of learning modules used in alternative learning system.

Some 1,150 barangay officials in 41 municipalities attended the conference held at the El Centro Convention Center in Subic

Politician Support Education

Nueva Vizcaya representative Carlos Padilla and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority(TESDA) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement(MOA) providing for an P5 million free work training program for Novo Vizcayanos.

The MOA consists of a P3.5 million fund from the TESDA and a P1.5 million from the office of Representative Padilla.

Rolando Manangan, TESDA provincial director said that the work- training scholarship program offers a skills education and actual application among Novo Vizcayanos. "This will help our constituents uplift their economic conditions, given the proper employment," Manangan said.

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