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The National System of Technical Vocational Education and Training in the Philippines: A review and ideas for reforms
- Authors: Aniceto C. Orbeta and Emmanuel F. Esguerra
- Main Title: Protection and Training Institutions for Improving Workforce Integration in Latin America and Asia , pp 357-395
- Publication Date: November 2016
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/76e50b23-en
- Language: English Spanish
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Skills upgrading and development have both short- and long-term roles to play in capacity-building efforts. Long-term skills development necessarily entails continuous skills upgrading, and this takes on even greater importance in the presence of rapidly changing technology. To the extent that technical vocational education and training (TVET) increases the productivity and incomes of the poor, it also serves the long-term objective of attaining greater equity. In the short-term, skills upgrading enhances the employability of the unemployed and facilitates the transfer to new occupations of persons who are currently employed but are underproductive. The role of the National System of Technical Vocational Education and Training (NSTVET) in all of these areas is of critical importance.
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