It  is the mandate of the TESDA to manage and supervise  technical education and skills development in the country. TESDA provides  direction, policies, programs and standards towards quality technical  education and skill development and is the leading partner in the development  of Filipino workforce with world-class competence and positive work values.  Cognizant to this  mandate, a number of interrelated programs and activities has been  undertaken, and one of which is the implementation of Technical and  Vocational Education Training (TVET) programs to growing TVET clients in  various training modalities.

Of particular significance is the Dual Training System (DTS) under  TESDA’s enterprise-based program wherein instructional mode of technology  delivery and training take place at the school/training center and at the  workplace.  One of the strategic approaches on this program is the conversion of  selected industry practices/ programs registered under the apprenticeship  program into DTS modality. 

Accordingly, the DTS’  beneficiaries are students, companies, training institutions, industry  associations, LGUs, NGOs, parents, and teachers. Aside from quality training  and employability after training, the advantages of the DTS are the  development of workers according to the company’s requisites; participating  companies save on production cost through tax incentives; and it also benefit  schools since the program is responsive to industries’ needs and it will  provide better employment opportunities for their graduates.

The impact evaluation assessed  the outcomes of DTS on skill formation and labor market by conducting a  tracking survey to interview former trainees from both the DTS and regular  programs, through a close collaboration with researchers in the Korean Development  Institute School of Public Policy and Management (KDI).  

And  in order to meet the mentioned study objectives, data collected focused on:

• individual-level  information on the former trainee’s family and social background, schooling  history, experience in the training institution and DTS implementing company,  work history, mobility, current household, anthropometry, as well as health conditions.
• Information  on the training institutions’ cost structures and other important aspects.