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 |
|---|---|
| New and Emerging Technology |
refers to new and emerging trades or crafts in the industry without TESDA-promulgated Training Regulations (TRs) as determined and recommended by local and international industry bodies/associations resulting from local and international researches/studies, authenticated labor market information/publications, among others that have current or forecasted employment opportunities. These include local in-demand trades of crafts in the local industry that are not identified as key employment generators but have existing employment opportunities evidenced by job orders or authenticated job vacancies or assurance of employment from the industries.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 3, s. 2018 |
| New Entrants to the Labor Force |
Persons aged 15 years old and over who seek work for the first time or first time unemployed, or those who work for the first time or first time employed, including those who are expected to work for the first time within two weeks after the date of interview
Source: DOLE |
| Next-in-Rank Position |
refers to a position which by reason of the hierarchical arrangement of positions in the Authority is determined to be the nearest degree of relationship to a higher position as contained in TESDA’s System of Ranking Position (SRP).
Source: TESDA Circular No. 119, s. 2019 |
| No Training Regulation (NTR) |
refers to the programs registered under UTPRAS not covered by any Training Regulations.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 089, s. 2018 |
| No Training Regulation (NTR) Apprenticeship or Learnership Program |
a program registered under the Apprenticeship or Learnership Program Guidelines not yet covered under any appropriate Training Regulations.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 120 s. 2020 |
| Nominal Duration |
refers to the estimated learning hours, which indicate the time for an average person to achieve the learning outcomes of the units of competency, inclusive of classroom contact time, laboratory/fieldwork/practicum, and other methods of study/assignments as defined in the Training Regulations (TR). It is an indicative duration per qualification based on experts' consensus or advice that will also serve as a guide to the TVET providers in the delivery of the qualification depending on specific guidelines to be issued by the TESDA Director General
Source: TESDA Circular 107, s. 2021 |
| Non-Compliant |
refers to the non-fulfillment of any one of the program registration requirements.
Source: Operating Procedures for Compliance Audit |
| Non-Conformity |
refers to a failure to comply with requirements
Source: TESDA Circular No. 47, s. 2022; TESDA-OP-IAS-02 Rev. 02 - Compliance Audit for PTCACS; TESDA-OP-IAS-01 Rev. 01 - For Program Registration |
| Non-Expendable Property |
refers to which cannot be consumed, spent, or used- up, such as equipment.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 018 s. 2018 |
| Non-Formal Education |
is any organized, systematic education activity carried outside the framework of the formal system to provide selected types of learning to a segment of the population. This shall also cover learning outcomes derived from professional development in the practice of profession which leads to qualifications.
Source: IRR of RA No. 10968 refers to a structured program of learning but does not lead to a PQF qualification. Source: TESDA Circular No. 090, s. 2021 |
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