TESDA prepares workforce for the 4th Industrial Revolution

TARLAC CITY — Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) bared Thursday the strategic plan to meet the demands of the digital age and ensure that the workforce has appropriate and relevant skills.

During the second episode of the Dagyaw Central Luzon: The Open Government Virtual Town Hall Meeting 2020, TESDA Regional Director Jesus Fajardo said the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) will affect 18.2 million jobs nationwide wherein most are low-skilled workers, youth and less educated. 

“There will be a higher demand for a skilled workforce in large employment industries. For the next six years, six million quality workers are needed by industries that are forecasted to generate larger employment markets,” Fajardo explained. 

The future jobs over the next 10 years will include digital tailor, virtual store Sherpa, personal memory curator, quantum machine learning analysts, augmented reality journey builder, financial wellness coach, fitness commitment counselor among others. 

With this, Fajardo cited TESDA’s strategic thrusts to address the problems of the excluded and left-behind Filipino workforce. 

“To match the regional development opportunities, we are pushing for Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Global Competitiveness and Workforce Readiness, and TVET for Social Equity. In line with these thrusts are our strategic responses namely: agility, scalability, and flexibility and sustainability,” he said. 

Under these responses is the creation of a conducive and enabling environment for the development and quality service delivery of the TVET sector. 

“Our plans underway which include adopting enterprise-based training as a dominant mode; pushing for TVET international standards; and implementing Skills Needed Anticipation to identify skills requirements will address the challenges posed by the 4IR,” he explained. 

Also, TESDA targets to assure industries with high economic and employment growth potentials by providing the required quantity of quality workforce. 

“We will directly address workforce needs of the basic sector and instill values and integrity in the conduct and delivery of TVET in the whole sector,” he noted. 

Among the priority industries of TESDA are tourism, hotels and restaurants, construction, IT-BPO, transport, communication, manufacturing, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, health, wellness and other social services.

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