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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''TESDA-So. Leyte is now ISO certified'''
'''Solon offers scholarship to students taking up Agriculture course'''
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1301329008903
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1301329107286
*Sunday 12th of February 2012
*Monday 13th of February 2012
:by Marcelo M. Pedalino
:by Marcelo M. Pedalino




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 12 (PIA)  --  The Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) provincial office here has undergone the necessary processes required by an audit-qualifying body for it to pass the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 13 (PIA)  --  Graduating high school students here and anywhere in the province who belong to the top five of the graduating class were challenged by the province's representative to avail of  his scholarship program for the coming school year, 2012-2013.
But one pre-requisite condition should be met, and that is, that the student take up an agriculture course at a government school here in the province, referring to the Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) or the Maasin City College (MCC).
In previous interviews with the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), TESDA Provincial Director Rolando Juanillo has intimated that his office was subjected to a rigorous scrutiny assessing its quality services, along with provincial offices of Samar and Leyte.
According to Aida Morsen Moralde of Cong. Roger Mercado’s district office, there were students in the past who availed of the lawmaker’s initiative, as agriculture was one of the courses listed under the Congressman’s scholarship program.
So far, however, someone has yet to graduate from this course, as the tendency was to shift to other courses, it was learned.
Aside from the TESDA Central Office, Region 8 was part of the three regions initially selected to undergo the ISO certification, the two others were Regions 3 and the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR), Juanillo had revealed.
In a recent meeting with heads of national line agencies, Mercado announced his desire to help graduating students continue college schooling, even as he singled Agriculture as the preferred course to be taken up.
He appealed on the students to spread the word to those interested to pursue an agriculture degree, especially if he or she belongs to the upper level of the graduating class.
On February 10, Friday, the mentioned areas were scheduled to receive the ISO 9001-2008 certification for having complied the requirements on quality procedures among others, Juanillo told PIA over the phone Wednesday.
Last month, Mercado rallied concerned stakeholders in his vision of a Southern Leyte province that will become a producer, no longer a consumer, of agriculture products, to reverse the trend nowadays that virtually anything agricultural sold in the market either came from Cebu or Mindanao.
The province should be producing these staples so that it can be self-reliant and can even sell to other places of the country, Mercado said.
An agency granted with the ISO mark usually enhances its reputation as a globally competitive office recognized to deliver quality product and services to its clientele, in an atmosphere of improved efficiency and at least cost, it was learned.
During the Agriculture-Tourism summit last month, Mercado had linked up with the regional office of the Department of Agriculture (DA), the people’s organizations, and the Mayors of the different local government units in the province to start mapping a roadmap or blueprint for the province’s full-speed agricultural development. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)
Juanillo said that as of now all other TESDA provincial offices in the region will also be undergoing a similar process.(PIA8-Southern Leyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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