Plan to address job mismatch to be presented to Angeles

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By Ian Ocampo Flora

ANGELES CITY -- The Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Philippines, is set to present a plan to address job mismatch to the City Government of Angeles.

The PBEd and USAID Philippines have been implementing the Higher Education and Productivity Project (HEPP) with the main goal to address concerns over the mismatch between the quality of the Philippines’ higher education graduates and the needs of its industries through greater industry participation in curriculum design, quality assurance and accreditation. The HEPP is a one year project that aims to solve the skills gap and mismatch problem by initiating industry-academe partnerships at the national and regional level.

Specifically, it aims to achieve this by improving the availability of information on industry and higher education capability and sustained national policy dialogue between key stakeholders, and by creating manpower plans and concrete industry-academe partnerships at the local level.

The PBEd has crafted a Human Resource Development Plan for Pampanga through the technical assistance of the Metro Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (MACCII), with funding support from the USAID-Philippines.

"After gathering data through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions with the local stakeholders from higher education institution, technical-vocational schools, local government units, and businesses, we are now ready to present the findings and recommendation of this plan," MACCII said in a statement sent to Sun.Star Pampanga.

The output dubbed Human Resource Development Plan for Pampanga will be officially turned over to the city government on June 26, 2015 at the Widus Hotel and Casino inside Clark Freeport.