This glossary of terms intends to provide the TESDA key players, partners, and stakeholders an online and updated TVET information, concepts, to bring common understanding and clarification on the use of TESDA terminologies.
| CONCEPT/TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| Employment Facilitation Assistance |
refers to the assistance provided to clients in their search for employment opportunities through career guidance, job immersion, OJT, job referral, among others and the number of TVET graduates assisted.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 007 s. 2021; TESDA Circular No. 13, s. 2022 |
| Employment Opportunities Provided |
refers to the company’s absorption of the graduates, in their workforce and the number of TVET graduates employed. This also includes apprentices and learners taken in by the company.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 007 s. 2021; TESDA Circular No. 13, s. 2022 |
| Employment Rate |
percentage of the total number of employed persons to the total number of persons in the labor force.
Source: PSA refers to the ratio of employed TESD graduates to the total number of graduates. Source: TESDA Circular No. 18 s. 2017; TESDA Circular No. 13, s. 2022 |
| End-User |
refers to the Head of the Executive, Regional, and Provincial Offices, TESDA Training Institutions and other TESDA Operating Units where the vacancy exists.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 119, s. 2019 |
| Enhanced Basic Education |
encompasses at least one (1) year of kindergarten education, six (6) years of elementary education, and six (6) years of secondary education, in that sequence. Secondary education includes four (4) years of junior high school and two (2) years of senior high school education.
Source: Sec. 4. RA No. 10533 |
| Enrolment |
is the registration of a person with an education or training provider for the purpose of undertaking a course or module.
Source: NCVER 2013, Australia as cited in TESDA Circular No. 021, s. 2023 the total number of students or trainees who have registered in a given course or program. Source: 2005 IACES |
| Enterprise |
a participating establishment or company that is duly registered and existing under Philippine laws, which directly engages an apprentice or learner based on a registered Apprenticeship and Learnership Program.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 120 s. 2020 refers to a company, business, organization for other purposeful endeavor. Source: TESDA Circular No. 032 s. 2021 |
| Enterprise-Based Training | refers to TVET programs delivered in the enterprise which maybe in-plant or stand-alone, or maybe linked with a training provider, such as Apprenticeship, Dual Training System, and In-Company Training/Enterprise Training Programs. These programs are offered to an industry group or to enterprises employees and individuals. Source: Memorandum 332, s. 2024 |
| Entrepreneurship |
refers to a training scheme to develop persons for self-employment or for organizing, financing and/or managing an enterprise. As a criterion, it is the minimum number of learners completed entrepreneurship training program.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 090 s. 2018 |
| Entrepreneurship Education |
a program that intends to develop persons for self-employment or for organizing, financing and/or managing an enterprise.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 060 s. 2020 |
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