Tech-voc center bares senior high courses

The Center for Healthcare Professions Cebu, Inc. (CHP Cebu) will offer all its 27 courses in its new senior high school program, which will start in the next academic year.

Bernard Restificar, CHP Cebu president and chief executive officer, said the courses include Barangay Health Services NCII, Caregiving NCII, Housekeeping Services NCII, Hilot (Wellness Massage) NCII, Pharmacy Services NCII and Household Services NCII.

The center is also applying for registration of additional courses, such as Food and Beverage Services NCII, Bread and Pastry NCII, Beauty Care NCII and Hairdressing NCII.

Students who cannot go to either  CHP facilities or its partner schools can avail of the mobile training centers that CHP Cebu will deploy in far-flung communities and among  indigenous people.

At present, CHP Cebu program director Myrna Restificar said they have 22 students from the Badjao community and 25 students from the Ati community undergoing household services training.

She said the mobile training centers have opened a lot of opportunities for the indigenous people to look for means of employment and livelihood.

“CHP Cebu is very proud to be part of this, to reach out to people,” she said.

For the mobile training classes, CHP Cebu will provide all the tools, materials, consumables and other items needed for the training.

“With the implementation of mobile training, we are promoting economic growth in communities and are bringing education to communities,” Myrna said.

While awaiting approval from the Department of Education, Bernard said they were exploring possible partnerships with public schools in the cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu in Cebu as well as in the province of Bohol.

Students will have the option to choose the TVET (Technical, Vocational, Education and Training) track for grades 11 to 12 under the K-12 system.

He said CHP Cebu can accommodate up to 10,000 students.

“If they have more than 10,000 students, we can adjust. We are partnering with as many schools as possible,” he said.

Tuition of public school students will be subsidized by DepEd. Each student scholar will be allotted P20,000 per year.

The center will cater not only to local students but to international students as well. Bernard said they have registered with the Bureau of Immigration and can now accept foreign or international students for technical or vocational courses.

The center also launched last week its website, which offers an inquiry service that interested students can access to in real time.

“With the right training and support, we believe that our trainees can be world class overseas workers,” Bernard said.

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Tech-voc centers to aid in K-12 implementation

PRIVATELY-run technical vocational institutions can be helpful partners for the successful implementation of the K-12 education system.

With this, the Center for Healthcare Professions Cebu Inc. (CHP Cebu) announced plans to offer courses for senior high school students starting next school year, in time for the opening of senior levels, Grade 11 and 12, under the new curriculum.

“We’ve seen the potential (for tech-voc schools to participate in the K-12 system) because many public schools do not have the facility to implement senior high and we would want to help them,” said CHP Cebu president and chief executive officer Bernard C. Restificar, in a press conference yesterday.

CHP Cebu is a Tesda-accredited technical-vocational training and competency assessment center based in Mandaue City.

The partnership with the Department of Education is still pending, as CHP Cebu is waiting approval. Once approved, CHP Cebu will be one of the training-providers under the K-12 curriculum for schools in Mandaue City, Lapu-Lapu City, and Bohol Province, specifically in the technical-vocational livelihood track, one of the options senior high school students can take.

Others, meanwhile, can choose to follow the academic track, which includes three strands: business, accountancy, management (BAM); humanities, education, social sciences (HESS); and science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM). This is ideal for students who want to pursue college education, said Dr. Fay C. Luarez, DepEd Mandaue educational program supervisor. There is also the arts and sports track for those who want to pursue careers in these fields.

However, she clarified that those who follow the tech-voc track can still pursue college.

“It is even better that they get the tech-voc trainings so when they graduate high school, they already have the skills,” Luarez said.

After finishing a technical-vocational-livelihood track in Grade 12, a student can obtain a National Certificate Level II (NC II), provided he/she passes the competency-based assessment of Tesda, which then makes the student eligible for employment.

In the case of CHP Cebu, Restificar said it can accommodate 10,000 senior high school students. Some trainings can be conducted in their facility in Mandaue City while others will be conducted in the respective public schools where CHP can bring its teachers and equipment.

CHP Cebu currently offers 26 courses, mainly in the areas of healthcare, tourism, and language like caregiving, pharmacy services, housekeeping, massage therapy, and Nihonggo and English language courses.

The school also boasts of its high employment rate of alumnae, with over 84 percent of its graduates from 2010 to 2012 getting hired after graduation. It has been in the industry for 13 years now.

DepEd officials have also called on other tech-voc schools to participate in the implementation of the K-12 by offering their trainings to senior high schools, citing the scarcity of public tech-voc schools to serve the students. In Mandaue City alone, Luarez said only two out of the eight public high schools in have tech-voc trainings.

 

Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2015/08/12/tech-voc-centers-aid-k-12-implementation-424253

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