The Technical Vocational Education and Training reforms consists of  four (4) major components, namely:

    1. Quality Assured Philippine TESD System
    2. TESDA Occupational Qualification and Certification System
    3. Unified Program Registration and Accreditation System
    4. TVET Quality Awards
 

  Section 2 of Republic Act No. 7796, otherwise known as the Technical Education and Skills Development Act of 1994, that it is “the policy of the State to provide relevant, accessible, high quality and efficient technical education and skills development in support of the development of high quality Filipino middle-level manpower responsive to and in accordance with the Philippine development goals and priorities”.

The Philippine TESD system must be:

Relevant 

A relevant TESD System has three different dimensions:

- relevant to the TESD clients, to the skills needs of the industry,to the structure of market incentives.

Efficient

An efficient TESD System can be measured in two aspects: 

- internal efficiency which concerns the optimal mix of inputs and 
- appropriate configuration of TESD delivery modes that will best meet local needs.
- external efficiency which is best achieved when TESD institutions are directly linked to employment and job markets so that their 
graduates immediately benefit from what they have learned.

Accessible if:

- it offers everyone access to productive employment.
- It provides access to higher education and other lifelong learning opportunities.

Cooperative and Consensual when:

          - it is founded on institutional arrangements that encourage private sector              participation and involvement and collaboration.

High Quality TESD System is one where:

          - primary customers benefit directly from the TESD services
- Skills need of industry is adequately met

 

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE QUALITY ASSURED PHILIPPINE TESD SYSTEM

• anchors on a competency-based National Qualification and Certification System
• draws standards and priorities from the industry
• accessible to basic education graduates, school leavers, workers, entrepreneurs and persons in higher educational institutions
• allows the person to enter at any stage in the system
• allows recognition of prior learning
• installs quality assurance among training providers through Unified Program Registration and Accreditation System
• utilizes certification as an assurance to industry of the quality of the workers
• dovetails the directions indicated in government plans, policies, priorities, and public investments
• provides incentives to quality assured training provides through the TVET Quality Award