Skills

THE foreign chambers of commerce in the country here have forged an agreement with the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (Pacu) that formalizes their partnership in helping address the jobs-skills mismatch in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – More young Filipinos now opt to become doctors apparently due to the slump in the demand for nurses abroad. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) yesterday reported an increase in the number of Filipinos entering medical school.

DAVAO CITY — Philippine fashion and industrial designers are moving abroad for better pay and environment, a Manila-based international designer said yesterday. Percy “PJ” Jutare Aranador, a “lifestyle designer” and owner of PJ Aranador Design Studio One, claimed at least 3,000 designers and workers in his profession have migrated to China, Vietnam, Indonesia, India and…

MANILA, Philippines – Three quarters of the country’s employers turn down job applicants with poor English, according to one of the country’s leading job search sites.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipinos can enjoy free skills training and become highly employable as President Aquino allocated P1 billion for the Technical Skills Development Authority (TESDA) scholarship program.

MANILA, Philippines – Farmers and fishermen are expected to become the most in demand workers in the country in the next 10 years.

What will it take for people to sit up and get worked up about the dire consequences of the brain drain phenomenon? For now, canceled airline flights and faulty weather forecasts.

THE NEWLY APPOINTED head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), Joel Villanueva, has ordered an overhaul of the agency’s school accreditation and scholarship program, citing the dismal 20-percent employment rate of Tesda scholars.

MANILA, Philippines—The newly appointed head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), Joel Villanueva, has ordered an overhaul of the agency’s school accreditation and scholarship program, citing the dismal 20 percent employment rate of Tesda scholars.

MANILA, Philippines—The well had already gone dry but still the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) promised to provide P1 billion worth of technical and vocational scholarships to the unemployed across the country, burdening the agency with debts under a new President.

The Philippines is suffering a crippling brain drain with many of its most talented and qualified workers heading overseas for higher paying jobs and better lifestyles, employers said. The shock resignations last week of 25 Philippine Airlines (PAL) pilots, who left for bigger salaries abroad, highlighted a trend that is changing the stereotype of overseas…

It has happened before with our doctors. It is happening again today with our pilots. There was a time when the brain drain of our doctors to the United States was a hot issue. It takes time and money to study medicine and the investments are made by the families of doctors. Can we blame…

MANILA, Philippines – Aside from pilots and weather forecasters, the country now faces a shortage of geologists. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) yesterday said the country is running out of geologists and warned the government that vacancies in the agency had reached 50 percent of the workforce.

Worried over the reported exodus of Filipino scientists and pilots for higher-paying jobs abroad, Sen. Edgardo Angara, head of the Senate Committee on Education, Tuesday urged Filipino scholars and professionals to return to the country and contribute to the local domestic academe and workforce the expertise they gained overseas.