The document discusses the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in the Philippines and its role in developing the country's human capital and innovation capacity. It outlines several of CHED's key projects including the National Agriculture and Fisheries Education System, Centers of Excellence, thesis/dissertation grants, and visiting research fellow programs. It also briefly discusses the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority's role and various technical and vocational education and training programs.

1. CHED
Commission on Higher
Education

2. VISION
 The Commission on Higher Education
(CHED) is the key leader of the
Philippine Higher Education System
effectively working in partnership with
other major higher education
stakeholders in building the country’s
human capital and innovation capacity
towards the development of a Filipino
Nation as a responsible member of
the international community.

3. CHED
Projects

4. National Agriculture and
Fisheries Education System
(NAFES)
Centers of Excellence /
Centers of Development
Thesis/Dissertation Grants
Visiting Research Fellow

5.  NAFES aims to establish, maintain
and support a complete and integrated
system of agriculture and fisheries
education (AFE), modernize and
rationalize agriculture and fisheries
education from elementary to tertiary
levels, unify the system of
implementation of academic programs
and upgrade the quality and ensure
sustainability and promote the global
competitiveness at all levels of AFE

6. Centers of Excellence / Centers
of Development
 Centers of Excellence (COEs) and
Centers of Development (CODs) are
either public or private higher education
institutions (HEIs) which have
demonstrated the highest degree or level
of standard along the areas of
instruction, research and extension.
They provide institutional leadership in
all aspects of development in specific
areas of discipline in the various regions
by providing networking arrangements to
help ensure the accelerated
development of HEIs in their respective
service areas.

7. Thesis/Dissertation Grants
 CMO 04 S. 2003
 CMO 13 S. 2003
 CMO 32 S. 2004
 CMO 33 S. 2004
 CMO_12_s2009
 Application Form SPPIC
 dissform-1
 thesis application form

8. Thesis/Dissertation Grants
 CHED shall provide financial assistance to
faculty members who are completing their
dissertation work on in any of the following
clusters of discipline:
 Science and Mathematics
 Engineering, Maritime Studies and Architecture
 Humanities, Social Sciences and Communication
 Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
 Business and Industry
 Health and Health Related Discipline
 Information Technology
 Teacher Education
 Industrial Education

9. Thesis/Dissertation Grants
 Entitlement
◦ P 50,000.00 for dissertation without
laboratory experiment
◦ P 70,000.00 for dissertation with
laboratory experiment

10. Thesis/Dissertation Grants
 Entitlement
◦ P 40,000.00 for thesis without laboratory
experiment
◦ P 60,000.00 for thesis with laboratory
experiment

11. Grants for Research/Paper
presentation
 Grant
◦ Registration fee not to exceed $300
◦ Roundtrip economy airfare to foreign
country where the conference to be held,
not to exceed $1,500
◦ $100 per diem for the duration of the
conference plus one day
◦ $100 pre departure expenses

12. Visiting Research Fellows
 2 categories of fellowship:
 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship
◦ Awarded to a research expert and professor
who shall visit with a selected host institution
to teach and conduct research in any priority
discipline identified by CHED
 Junior Visiting Research Fellowship
◦ Awarded to qualify faculty who shall be given
opportunity to acquire hands-on experience
in research or other professional endeavors
by working with the senior researcher/adviser
in the selected host institution.

13. Programs
 Medium Term Development Program for
Higher Education
 Roadmap to Public Higher Education
Reform
 Faculty Development Program
 Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency
and Accreditation (ETEEAP)
 Student Financial Assistance Programs
(StuFAPs)
 Foreign Scholarship and Training
Programs (FTSP)

14. Medium Term Development
Program for Higher Education

15. Roadmap to Public Higher
Education Reform

17. Faculty Development Program
 The quality of education depends
largely on the qualifications and
competencies of the faculty. In view of
the faculty’s vital role in influencing
education outcomes, the Commission
on Higher Education (CHED) requires
that teachers at higher education level
must have at least masters degree in
the fields in which they teach.

18. Expanded Tertiary Education
Equivalency and Accreditation
(ETEEAP)
 The ETEEAP is a comprehensive
educational assessment program at
the tertiary level that recognizes,
accredits and gives equivalencies to
knowledge, skills, attitudes and values
gained by individuals from relevant
work. It is implemented through
deputized higher education institutions
that shall award the appropriate
college degree.

19. Expanded Tertiary Education
Equivalency and Accreditation
(ETEEAP)
 Beneficiaries must be Filipinos who
are at least high school graduates.
They must have worked for at least
five years in the field or industry
related to the academic program they
are obtaining an equivalency. They
must also be able to show proof of
proficiency, capability and thorough
knowledge in the field applied for
equivalency.

20. Student Financial Assistance
Programs (StuFAPs)
 Aimed at providing access to quality higher
education among poor but deserving students,
STUFAPs consist of:
 (1) scholarships - including the Full Merit, One-Town-
One-Scholar (OTOS) and Half Merit programs, the
beneficiaries of which are selected on the basis of
their performance in qualifying examinations;
 (2) Grants-in-Aid-Tulong-Dunong including: Study
Grant Program for Solo Parents and their Dependents,
DND-CHED-PASUC Study Grant, OPAPP-CHED
Study Grant Program for Rebel Returnees, and CHED
Special Study Grant Programs for Senate and House of
representatives, which are meant for the students
from poor families, indigenous communities, and
persons with disabilities; and
 (3) student loans for the needy but deserving students.

21. Foreign Scholarship and
Training Programs (FTSP)

22. TESDA
Technical Education and
Skills Development
Authority

23. Programs
 School based
• This refers to the direct delivery or
provision of TVET programs by the
TESDA-administered schools.
Totaling to 57, 19 are agricultural
schools. 7 are fishery schools and
31 are trade schools. These school
based programs include post-secondary
offerings of varying
duration not exceeding three years.

24. Programs
 Center Based Programs
◦ These refer to training provisions
being undertaken in the TESDA
Regional (15) and Provincial
(45) Training Centers totalling 60
in selected trade areas in the
different regions and provinces
in the country.

25. Programs
 Korea-Philippines Training Centers
◦ These refer to training provisions
being undertaken in the TESDA
Regional (15) and Provincial
(45) Training Centers totalling 60
in selected trade areas in the
different regions and provinces
in the country.

26. Programs
 Korea-Philippines Training Centers
◦ TESDA is the implementing agency of three
grant assistance projects from the
Government of the Republic of Korea. The
Korea-Philippines Information Technology
Training Center (KPITTC) at the Quezon
City Polytechnic University compound in
Novaliches hopes to become the premier
information and communication technology
training center in the Asia-Pacific region by
producing competent IT practitioners to
service the local and global manpower
needs. KPITTC Quezon City will also
provide training on computer graphics and
animation.

27. Programs
 Community Based Programs
◦ Community-based Training for Enterprise
development Program is primarily
addressed to the poor and marginal
groups, those who cannot access, or are
not accessible by formal training
provisions. They have low skills, limited
management abilities, and have few
economic options. They have no access
to capital – most of them are unqualified
for formal credit programs

28. Programs
 Enterprise Based Programs
◦ training program being implemented
within companies/firms. These programs
can be any of the following:
◦ Apprenticeship Program is a training
and employment program involving a
contract between an apprentice and an
employer on an approved apprenticeable
occupation.

29. Programs
 Enterprise Based Programs
◦ Learnership Program is a practical
training on-the-job for approved learnable
occupations, for a period not exceeding
three months.
◦ Dual Training System is an instructional
mode of delivery for technology-based
education and training in which learning
takes place alternately in two venues: the
school or training center and the
company.