Career Caravan attracts 8000 young Eastern Visayans

By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
November 18, 2006

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte  –  More than 6,000 young third year and high school students of Eastern Visayans attended the much awaited TESDA Career Caravan which was graced by no less than TESDA Director General Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco.

The students enthusiastically started the queue to the Tacloban Convention Center early morning of Thursday showing their interest in the message which will be delivered to them about the ladderized education, PGMA’s gift to young Filipinos.

At about the same time, more than 2,000 young students of Ormoc and environs started going to the Ormoc Astrodome to get ready to listen to the message of Secretary Syjuco and interact with him via teleconference.

Interacting with both the students who were at the Tacloban City Convention Center and the students at the Ormoc city Astrodome, Secretary Syjuco expressed amazement at the enthusiasm of the students and the warm welcome he received in Tacloban which he said is the warmest so far in the seven Career Caravans he has already attended.

Paving the way for a more improved quality of life for the local populace through the implementation of the Ladderized Education Program is the main focus of the Career Caravan, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s gift to the young people of the country.

Secretary Syjuco brought the message of hope which the Ladderized education program really is. He said that under the ladderized program, a poor student whose parents can no longer afford to send him to school after a year or so in college, has already earned competency which he could use in order to land a job.

This he said is very far from the traditional system of education which he said is like going inside a “tubo” and coming out without a skill he can use to find a job. The traditional system, he said is like climbing up and down a mountain only to face another mountain again.