Tesda to probe ‘ghost scholars’

THE Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is set to investigate how the previous government distributed scholarship vouchers to determine how many so-called TESDA scholar graduated and if all of them were real students and not “ghosts.”

Tesda Director General Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong said it was found out that only 28 million of the total 29 million tech-voc [technical and vocational] scholars since the establishment of the state skills training agency in 1994 have graduated from their respective courses, and only 10 million of the graduates have been assessed and were given NC [National Certification] 2 certification.