Scholarship Programs

Training for Work Scholarship (TWSP)

This program provides immediate interventions to meet the need for highly critical skills. The program has two-fold objectives:

1. to purposively drive TVET provision to available jobs through incentives and appropriate training programs that are directly connected to existing jobs for immediate employment, both locally and overseas,

2. to build and strengthen the capacity and capability of TVET institutions in expanding and improving the delivery of quality, efficient and relevant training programs that meet job requirements, including programs for higher levels of technology.

The program was launched in May 2006 with funding from the Office of the President and mainstreamed in the regular budget in 2008. This program is a response to the clamor of industry to address the critical skills shortages in priority sectors, particularly the Business Process Outsourcing, metals and engineering, construction and tourism, among others.

• Amendments to TESDA Circular No. 01, Series of 2018 (Expanded Emergency Massive Skills Training Program)

• Empowering Indigeneous Peoples and Cultural Communities through TVET And Reintegration Training for Rebel Returnees (Special Skills Training Program)

• Omnibus Guidelines for 2018 Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) and Special Training for Employment Program

• 2018 Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) TVET Programs Coverage and Schedule of Cost

• 2018 Program on Accelerating Farm School Establishment (PAFSE) TVET Programs Coverage and Schedule of Cost

• Implementing Guidelines

• 2017 Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) Schedule of Costs

• Amendments to the Administrative and Financial Procedures of TESDA Circular No. 55, s. of 2016 and TESDA Circular No. 10, s. of 2017

• Implementing Guidelines for the Angking Galing Project in the National Capital Region (NCR)

• Implementing Guidelines for the Massive Skills Trainin Program

• Implementing Guidelines for Nationwide Emergency Skills Training Program (NESTP)

• Procedural Guidelines on the Availment of Skills

Special Training for Employment Program (STEP)

STEP is a community-based specialty training program that addresses the specific skills needs of the communities and promote employment, particularly through entrepreneurial, self-employment and service-oriented activities. Training programs offered are generally short-term or modules based on the Training Regulations promulgated by TESDA. Its objective is to provide skills and training opportunities for the beneficiaries in the barangays/ communities to make them employable and productive. 

Both public and private TechVoc providers, but mostly local government training centers and TESDA Technology Institutions, deliver the training programs under STEP.

The beneficiaries of STEP receive the following assistance: free training and competency assessment, starter toolkits and training allowance of sixty pesos (Php 60.00) per day for the duration of the training.

The program was introduced only in 2014 in line with thrust of expanding the reach of TVET to the grassroots.

• Omnibus Guidelines for 2018 Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) and Special Training for Employment Program

• 2018 Special Training for Employment Program (STEP) TVET Programs Coverage and Schedule of Cost

• Implementing Guidelines

Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (UAQTEA)

The program was established through Republic Act No. 10931 providing for free tuition and other school fees in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), Local Universities and Colleges (LUCs) and state-run Technical Vocational Institutions (STVIs), establishing the Tertiary Education Subsidy and Student Loan Program (SLP), strengthening the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UniFAST), and appropriating funds therefor. It is hereby declared that quality education is an inalienable right of all Filipinos and it is the policy of the State to protect and promote the rights of all students to quality education at all levels. The State recognizes the complementary roles of public and private higher education institutions and technical-vocational institutions in the educational system and the invaluable contribution that the private tertiary schools have made and will make to education.

The program aims to:

1. Provide adequate funding and such other mechanisms to increase the participation rate among all socioeconomic classes in tertiary education;

2. Provide all Filipinos with equal opportunity to quality tertiary education in both private and public education institutions;

3. Give priority to learners who are technically-able and who come from poor families;

4. Ensure the optimized utilization of government resources in education;

5. Provide adequate guidance and incentives in supporting young Filipinos with their career choices towards the proper development and utilization of human resources; and

6. Recognize the complementary roles of public and private TVIs in the tertiary education system.

• Guidelines in the Availment of GSIS Group Personal Accident Insurance (GPAI) for Student Grantees (Learners) of Free WET Pursuant to RA 10931, UAQTEA

• Omnibus Guidelines for 2019 TESDA Scholarship Programs (TWSP, STEP, PESFA, UAQTEA)

• Guidelines on the Implementation of Free TVET under the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (UAQTEA) in State-run Technical Vocational Institutions (STVIs)