Brief History

Historical Development of

Samar National School of Arts and Trades 

    Samar National School of Arts and Trades (SNSAT ) is one of the supervised-TVET Training Institutions of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) which is located at Barangay 5, Cebreiros Street, Taft, Eastern Samar which is about 49 kilometres north of Borongan City, the provincial capital.

   SNSAT was established on June 23, 1969 by the enactment of Republic Act 5949 as a Trade school under the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) now DepEd. The Vocational High School was formally recited with 48 First Year students at a temporary school building rented from a teacher of Taft, the late Mrs. Pilar M. Calim. The operation had only an allocation of Php50,000.00. Little later a school site of 3.3 hectares was donated to the school by the Balbaboco family through the efforts of the then Mayor Anecito A. Cebreros.

      With the establishment of TESDA as an agency through RA 7796 on August 25, 1994 otherwise known as TESDA-Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, SNSAT qualified its transfer from the Bureau of Technical-Vocational Education and Training ( BTVET ) to TESDA, hence, secondary trade curriculum that started on June 23, 1975 had ended on the school year 2001-2002 with the turn-over of the students to the adjacent school which is Taft National High School.

    Through the years, SNSAT has been responsive to the call and mandate of TESDA which is the provision of quality TVET. It had offered two year and or three-year programs during the school years 1997 up to 2008 but as revised curriculum focused on the competency-based training in response to the industry needs of skilled manpower, short term training programs became more in demand and 2to 3 year-technology programs were delisted.

      Today, SNSAT is contemplating into the possibility of re-offering the 2 to 3 year-technology courses in the light of emerging demand in DepEd as well as CHED of Instructors/Teachers who are graduates of these courses.