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 |
|---|---|
| Income Generating Projects (IGPs) |
refer to entrepreneurial business activities of whatever scale that takes place in or by the learning institutions managed by the students and supervised by technical instructors with revolving capital provided by the institution established for the purpose of providing the students the opportunity of learning business acumen and to generate income for the improvement of the institutions.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 090 s. 2018 |
| Incomplete (Inc) |
a mark that may be assigned at the discretion of the instructor/training facilitator who believes that an extension of time is warranted for a student/learner whose work is incomplete at the end of the semester
Source: TESDA Circular No. 021, s. 2023 |
| Incomplete Document |
refers to the data correction request with missing or lacking of the required document(s).
Source: TESDA Circular No. 056 s. 2021 |
| Incomplete Industry Work Experience Required |
refers to the condition wherein a trainer has no or insufficient industry work experience prescribed in the Training Regulation.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 071 s. 2019 the period of time provided for a competency assessor to comply with the industry work experience required. (IWER). Source: TESDA Circular No. 075 s., 2020 |
| Independent Contractor |
refers to an entity engaged by TESDA to perform work or services through a contracting arrangement, without any employee-employer relationship. This includes contracts of service and job order personnel of TESDA duly licensed and/or recognized by the appropriate government agency.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 023 s. 2021 |
| Indigenous Peoples (IPs) | a group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as an organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed customs, tradition and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to political, social, and cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions, and culture, become historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. Source: PSA |
| Individual Assessment Form |
contains the individual assessment of the applicant based on the assessment criteria in terms of performance, education, training, experience, management competence (for executive, managerial and supervisory positions only) demonstrated competence and work commitment, potential, interview and written examination.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 119, s. 2019 |
| Industry |
set of all production units engaged primarily in the same or similar kinds of productive economic activities.
Source: PSA |
| Industry Association | is an organization of independent business units in the same branch of industry, which conducts activities cooperatively aimed at improving the welfare of the group, which does not deprive is members of the power to make essential managerial decisions. They are formed by businesses which are engaged in the same or similar trade. They are organized on a non-profit basis and formed for the protection and promotion business interests of its members. Source: content for Management Studies, Accountlearning.com, as referenced in TESDA Circular No. 038, s. 2023 |
| Industry Board |
an independent body established in priority industries to provide direct participation of employers and workers in the design and implementation of skills development schemes, trade skills standardization and certification and such other functions in the fulfillment of the Authority's objectives.
Source: Section 26, TESDA Law as cited in TESDA Circular No. 17, s. 2021 |
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