TESDA expects rise in domestic work assessments this year

By Prince Golez

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is anticipating more applicants for domestic work assessment this year compared to 2020.

In a press release Sunday, TESDA announced that it has already assessed 54,233 domestic work applicants just halfway through 2021, higher by 7,980 compared to last year’s total.

According to Secretary Isidro Lapeña, the rise is made possible by the accessible services provided by TESDA and the consideration made by the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases.

During the height of the restricted community quarantine last year, the agency launched the online registration for assessment for outbound overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to ease the process.

A National Certificate is one of the requirements for a Filipino to work overseas.

“They can just download the TESDA (application) and click the ‘TESDA Abot Lahat ang OFWs’ button where they can choose either to train or to be assessed. If they choose to be assessed, the concerned TESDA provincial or district office will give them the schedule of their assessment in the nearest assessment center,” said Lapeña.

The TESDA chief also directed the regional offices to establish additional assessment centers nationwide after the IATF allowed the resumption of face-to-face competency assessment.

“We want to ensure that our kababayans who need to undergo assessment would not have any difficulty in finding an assessment center. In fact, from May to June this year, we opened additional assessment centers in the NCR, Region III and Region IV-A,” he added.

From the total number of assessed domestic work graduates from January to June 2021, a total of 49,283 were certified or equivalent to 90.87 percent certification rate.

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