Tesda receives DAP for its skills training programs

Technical Education Skills Development Authority (Tesda) chief Joel Villanueva admitted on Thursday that the agency has received P1.1 billion from the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) of President Benigno Aquino 3rd, but stressed that the fund was used to finance various skills training programs of the agency.

Villanueva said the DAP-funded training programs – which give priority to poor youth – yielded high employment rate, putting to work more than 90,000 graduates of various technical vocational (tech-voc) courses.