The National System of Technical Vocational Education and Training in the Philippines: Review and Reform Ideas

The role of the National System of Technical Vocational Education and Training (NSTVET) is critical in skill upgrading and development. The rapidly changing technology highlights this need even more. This paper reviews the state of Philippine NSTVET and identifies and discusses reform ideas. It does so by doing three things, namely: (a) provide a description of the characteristics of an improved NSTVET described in recent sectoral reviews; (b) provide a description of the characteristics and analysis of the performance of the existing Philippine NSTVET; and (c) provide recommendations to improve the system.