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The Automotive Aftermarket division of Robert Bosch Inc. and the Don
Bosco Center for Research and Training recently signed a memorandum
of agreement to provide training on advanced automotive service
applications to the school’s teaching force.
Mustafa Sed, the general manager of Bosch
Philippines led the signing of the agreement with Don Bosco’s
executive director, Jose Bienvenido Biona.
The “Bosch-Don Bosco Advance Training
Series,” will offer a crash course series where Bosch technicians
will provide advanced automotive service application training to Don
Bosco’s instructors about vehicle diagnostics and repair service
for today’s increasingly complicated vehicle systems.
“This is an opportunity for Bosch to provide
advanced automotive service applications to enhance the local auto
services industry,” Sed explained.
Sed added that Don Bosco’s automotive
instructors will undergo intensive training at the Philippine
Automotive Technical Training Center housed at the Bosch Service
Center in Makati City.
“The theory portion of the training will be
conducted in Don Bosco centers while the practical or hands-on
portion will be accommodated at the Bosch facility,” he said.
Sed added that the newly qualified instructors
will channel the lectures to their students.
Biona said the partnership is a major step that
will address structural unemployment problems of the Filipino
workforce, which could be attributed to labor supply and demand
skills, and education mismatch.
“But more importantly, it [partnership]
provides another model on industry-academe partnership, which could
be further replicated in other sectors,” Biona said.
One of the courses to be offered for minimum fee
of P3,000 per three lecture series include diesel fuel-injection
technology, incorporating discussions on operation, diagnosis,
troubleshooting, and testing.
Besides Don Bosco, the Technological University
of the Philippines will be offered the same partnership with Bosch.
Early last year, Bosch successfully linked with the Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority for a similar
partnership.
-- James Konstantin Galvez
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