Glossary of Terms

refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a state of which he or she is not a citizen or on board a vessel navigating the foreign seas other than a government ship used for military or non-commercial purposes or on an installation located offshore or on the high seas; to be used interchangeably with a migrant worker."
Source: RA No. 10022 refers to Filipinos living and working outside of the Philippines who are in another country for a limited or definite period i.e on a work contract.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 089 s. 2018

refer to migrant workers, other Filipino nationals, and their dependents abroad. (RA 10022) Filipinos who are outside the Philippines.
Source: PSA

a household member who is currently out of the country due to overseas employment. He/she may or may not have a specific work contract or may be presently at home or vacation but has existing overseas employment to return to. Undocumented overseas workers are considered as overseas workers for as long as they are still considered members of the household and had been away for less than five years.
Source: PSA

refers to a situation where the number of programs produce graduates greater than the demand based on labor market intelligence report, resulting to unemployment of graduates
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in TVET), an association between an organization/enterprise and a training provider to achieve recognized training.
Source: UNESCO-UNEVOC refers to the relationship between the TVIs and the enterprises (industrial, agricultural, business, and offices whether public or private) mutually agreeing through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to cooperate and participate in conducting Supervised Industry Learning.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 018 s. 2023

refers to a government-issued grant, bestowing an exclusive right of the creator(s) over a product or process that provides any technical solution to a problem in any field of human activity that is new, inventive, and industrially applicable. It is an exclusive right that allows the creator(s) to exclude others from making, using, or selling the product of his invention during the life of the patent as defined in the IP Code, as amended. The intellectual property developed within TESDA may include, but is not limited to, industrial and training equipment, learning systems and simulators, and devices that are new and have industrial applicability.
Source: IPO, Philippines as cited in TESDA Circular No. 023 s. 2021

refers to any technical solution of a problem in any field of human activity that is new, involves an inventive or innovative step, and is industrially applicable. It may be or may relate to a product, a process, or an improvement of any of the foregoings.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 023 s. 2021

refers to mechanisms or access ramps that provide access to qualifications and assist people to move easily and readily between the different education and training sectors and between these sectors and the labor market.
Source: RA No. 10647, IRR of the Ladderized Education Act of 2014

refers to non-eligible learners to avail of the Free TVET benefits shall be charged the training cost and other training-related costs determined by the TESDA Board.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 092 s. 2019

disbursement of allowances to TESDA Scholars .
Source: TESDA Circular No. 030 s. 2021