{"id":220737,"date":"2019-06-28T22:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T02:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220737"},"modified":"2019-06-28T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T02:07:14","slug":"dotr-tesda-launch-tsuper-iskolar-in-metro-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/28\/dotr-tesda-launch-tsuper-iskolar-in-metro-manila\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTr, TESDA launch &#8216;Tsuper Iskolar&#8217; in Metro Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220738\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6531187113986915702699758765139884395462656o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220738\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6531187113986915702699758765139884395462656o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6531187113986915702699758765139884395462656o.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/6531187113986915702699758765139884395462656o-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;TSUPER ISKOLAR&#8217;. DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade and TESDA Director General Isidro Lapena pose with &#8220;Tsuper Iskolar&#8221; beneficiaries during the launch of the program in Muntinlupa City on Friday (June 28, 2019). About 5,075 \u201cTsuper Iskolars\u201d, including 25,000 families, are beneficiaries of the program. (Photo courtesy of Department of Transportation via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) launched on Friday the \u201cTsuper Iskolar\u201d program to provide scholarships and livelihood training to public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTsuper Iskolar\u201d provides beneficiaries and their families with free skills training, skills assessment, and entrepreneurship training through courses offered by TESDA.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said the initiative aims to improve the livelihood of public transport drivers in line with the government\u2019s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program will provide further skills training to improve your livelihood as a driver. There is a program on how to become a mechanic, particularly how to maintain your vehicles. The transport cooperatives will be provided management and bookkeeping courses,\u201d Tugade told the program\u2019s beneficiaries in his address during its launch in Muntinlupa City.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, scholarship grants were provided to drivers, operators and stakeholders from 179 transport cooperatives in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries were likewise provided with food and transportation allowance worth PHP350 a day for 35 days of training.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 5,075 \u201cTsuper Iskolars\u201d, including 25,000 families, benefit from the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTsuper Iskolar\u201d was launched in April pursuant to a memorandum of agreement signed by the DOTr and TESDA in December 2018 under the PUVMP Stakeholder Support Mechanism Component.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be rolling out across the country with its next launch scheduled in Cebu on July 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) launched on Friday the \u201cTsuper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":220738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-aerol-john-patena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220739,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220737\/revisions\/220739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}