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 |
|---|---|
| Open Learning | refers to a philosophy of learning that is based on the flexibility of access for equity in education, an educational system accessible to every individual with minimal restrictions and emphasizing the flexibility of the system to eradicate problems caused by barriers like age, geographical location, time constraints, and economic situation. Source: Open Distance Learning Act (RA 10650); TESDA Circular No. 104 s. 2019 |
| Operational Capacity |
refers to such a number of employees or workers who can be permitted or required to physically report to work on-site in a particular office or establishment.
Source: Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines with Amendments, 18 February 2021 |
| Operations Audit |
is a separate evaluation of the outcome, output, process, and input to determine whether government operations, programs, and projects are effective, efficient, ethical, and economical, including compliance with laws, regulations, managerial policies, accountability measures, and contractual obligations.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 079 s., 2020 |
| Opportunities |
it can arise as a result of a situation favorable to achieving an intended result; can be referred to as positive effects of Risks; can lead to the adoption of new practices, addressing new customers, building partnerships, using new technology and other desirable and viable possibilities to address the organization's or its customer's needs.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 017 s. 2018 |
| Opportunity for Improvement (OFI) |
Aspects that will lead to effective and efficient management system enhancement relative to the requirement of the ISO standard and TESDA QMS. This could be an opportunity(ies) where a certain area(s) can be further improved from the result(s)s of internal and external audits. The process owner/auditees may or may not adopt the identified OFIs, but at least review their possibility or impact.
Source: TESDA-QP-03 Rev. 03 |
| Opt-Out |
refers to the voluntary decision of the student to forego the benefits of the Free Higher Education in SUCs and LUCs and Free TVET in Post-Secondary TVIs and instead pay the institution the amount equivalent to the waived subsidy
Source: IRR of RA 20931, UAQTEA of 2017 |
| Originator or Process Owner |
an office that initiated the document creation/revision reflected under the "Prepared by" portion of the document.
Source: ISO 19011:2015 |
| Other Alternative Work Arrangements |
refer to work arrangements consisting of a combination of the skeletal workforce, work-from-home, staggered working hours, and four-day workweek work arrangements appropriate/applicable to the office subject to the prevailing community quarantine in the area where the operating unit is located and the nature of work/job performed by the employee(s).
Source: TESDA Circular No. 056 s. 2020 |
| Out of School Youth (OSY) |
refers to persons aged 15 to 24 years who are not attending school, have not finished any college or post-secondary course, and not working.
Source: FLEMMS, 2013, PSA |
| Out-of-School |
refers to boys and girls who belong to any of the categories: i) 7-14 years old who are not enrolled; ii) 15-24 years old, not enrolled, not employed and not a tertiary level graduate.
Source: FLEMMS, 2013, PSA |
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