Pork-funded schools not SEC-registered

THEY ARE supposed to be top-rate technical vocational institutions (TVIs), which is why they bagged millions of pesos from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda). Or actually, from the pork-barrel funds of some legislators that had been loaded up in Tesda’s budget.

But the Commission on Audit (COA), in its report on Tesda for 2013, had found them “non-compliant” with Tesda’s training rules, and their project implementation, marked with “discrepancies.” Generally, for a lot more money per seminar, they trained fewer students across shorter training periods, COA said.