A PROGRAM that will provide training to trainers in a bid to address the demand for a “competent and skilled workforce” in the information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) sector was formally launched yesterday.
The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), led by BPAP President Benedict C. Hernandez, BPAP Executive Director for Finance Ronald L. Arambulo and TESDA director general Joel Villanueva, formally launched the P25-million “Train the Trainers” program that will train 1,704 trainers across the country.
The program will benefit “potential trainers” in the National Capital Region (NCR), Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Training sessions in the NCR with University of Makati as the principal partner started on Sept. 17, while sessions in Luzon and Mindanao will begin on Oct. 8 and Oct. 15, respectively, Florelixie M. Neo, project manager, said in an interview.
In the trainers’ training program or the Trainers Methodology (TM) Plus, P18 million was allocated for 900 scholarship vouchers, while under the Trainers Methodology 1, a TESDA course aimed at enhancing training skills, P7 million was allocated for 804 scholarship vouchers.
Mr. Hernandez said TM Plus has three components, namely: IT-BPO industry orientation, blended learning methodologies, and industry immersion.
TM plus, funded by TESDA and implemented by BPAP, is under the “500-million funding for the Industry-based Training for Work Scholarship Program, a key initial component of the government and the IT-BPO industry’s Road Map 2016 to increase total industry generated jobs from 1.8 million in 2010 to 4.5 million in 2016,” a press release read.
TM Plus includes courses on e-learning applications, blended learning techniques, facilitation skills, and presentations skills.
The Philippine Society for Training and Development will assessed the trainers after the training. -- Kathryn Mae P. Tubadeza
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