7 May 2025
“Let us partner with the industry. Bring the workplace into the classroom and bring the classroom into the workplace as much as we can. Let us involve ourselves in producing jointly the kind of training that can ensure employability for our people so that we give the industry and enterprises the skilled workforce that they need.”
With these words, Hon. Jose Francisco B. Benitez, Director General of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), urged the members of the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) to support the government’s Enterprise-Based Education and Training program which currently boasts of an impressive 86 percent employment rate for graduates.
ECCP recently organized a luncheon with TESDA in Makati City. The event included a panel discussion which featured TESDA Director General Benitez joined by Wadhwani Foundation Vice President Angela-Chen Delantar, Save the Children Philippines Chairperson Alicia Dela Rosa-Bala, and Bosch Philippines Business Development Manager Karla Ravida. DivinaLaw Associate Atty. Renz J. Ayongao served as moderator and host of the event.
ECCP is a bilateral foreign chamber that promotes European interests in the Philippines as well as Philippine interests in Europe. DivinaLaw is a member of ECCP.
Atty. Ayongao is a member of the firm’s Litigation, Arbitration, Labor, Data Privacy, and Intellectual Property practice groups.
