TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte
– Congresswoman Remedios Petilla of the First District of the
Province of
Leyte
is working for the professionalization of vocational and technical
occupations.
This was learned from
the lady solon during the Education and LGU Collaboration Conference
held recently at the Department of Education Regional Office 8.
The lady solon
revealed that she is the principal author of House Bill 04869 in
Congress which is called the “Professionalization of Vocational and
Technical Occupations Act of 2005.” The bill is an act regulating the
practice of all vocational and technical occupations, creating a
vocational and technical licensing commission, appropriating funds
therefore and for other purposes.
Congresswoman Petilla
said that she envisions that the practice of vocational occupations
should entitle the practitioner to become a professional in her
vocational field of endeavor.
This will hopefully
erase the stereotype notion of many people who look down at vocational
and technical courses as a second class way of earning a living. With
the passage of this bill, after a number of years practicing the
vocational or technical occupation, will entitle a person to be called
a professional.
“Through the bill, we
will soon have professional mechanics, professional make-up artists,
professional welders, professional technicians and many other
professionals,” Petilla said.
Whether people will
accept it or not, the graduates of vocational and technical courses,
land a job faster and easier, than the graduates of baccalaureate
courses. Besides, for poor families, it is also easier to send the
children to vocational and technical schools than to colleges and
universities.
This will also be a
plus factor for the students who cannot qualify the Intelligence
Quotient required by the colleges and universities before they are
accepted to college. Many students are also disappointed when doors to
college education are closed to them because they are unable to pass
the entrance examinations.
The bill of
Congresswoman Petilla will keep the sun shining for these young people
because even if they are not college graduates they will still have
the chance of becoming professionals.
