THE HOUSE of Representatives approved a measure that will establish an enterprise-based education and training program.

House Bill 10561 or the proposed Enterprise-Based Education and Training Program Act was approved on 3rd and final reading.

The measure aims to produce well-trained and better equipped manpower capable to respond to the skill requirements and demands of employers and the industries.

The bill will also rationalize the manpower training system by consolidating apprenticeship, dual training, on-the-job training programs and all other forms of industry-based training arrangement.

House Bill 10561 mandates the Technical Education Skills Development Authority to establish a registration mechanism and assign an office that will process all Enterprise-Based Education Training Program.

It will also establish a competency and enterprise-based training system involving the active cooperation of employers, workers, industry and the government.