Ladderized Education Program (LEP) simply means starting with Technical – Vocational (Tech-Voc)

courses that are creditable for a college degree.

LEP grants Filipinos facility to enter and exit the country’s educational system while acquiring the skills
and competencies they need to ascend and reach successively higher job platforms.

Ladderized education is a new system of education in the philippines that allows learners to progress
between Technicsl Vocational edu. and training (tvet) and collage and vice-versa

lE opens opportunities for careeer and educational advancement to students and workers

according to republic act np. 10647 Ladderized education refers to the harmonization of all education
and training mechanisms that allow students and workers to progress between technical-vocational and
higher education programs, or vice-versa. It opens opportunities for career and educational
advancement to students and workers. It creates a seamless and borderless education and training
system that will allow transfers in terms of flexible entry and exit between technical-vocational and
higher education programs in the post-secondary school educational system;

The government now has an answer. It’s the LADERIZED EDUCATION SYSTEM (e.o. 356) that
institutionalize a ladderized interface between technical-vocational education and training (TVET) and
higher education (HE). This is in conformity with PGMA’s agenda which prioritizes the creation of six to
ten million jobs and the expansion of youth opportunities. The system also recognizes the present
compartmentalization of technical vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education, which
hinders the recognition, and accreditation of competence in technical-vocational skills and vice versa.
Hence the partnership of TESDA and CHED came about.

Ladderized education, according to Sec. Syjuco, simply means starting with Technical Vocational courses
that are creditable for a College Degree. You start with tech-voc modules, and there after will require
much less College courses to earn a College Diploma. Cited as exemplars are some degree courses being
ladderized by TESDA and CHED. This include the BS Nursing, where a student will undergo two years of
Tech Voc courses embedded to the curriculum of BS Nursing are Caregivers NCII which could be attained
within the first semester of the program. The school will then issue an institutional certificate to the
student as a graduate of Caregiver course. A National Certificate for Caregiver will be issued by TESDA
once the graduate pass the mandatory competency assessment. This will provide her with the
opportunity to look for employment, local or abroad, if she encountered financial difficulty to pursue her
education. After saving enough money, she can go back to her school to pursue her course. After another
semester, she will be granted another Tech-Voc certificate as graduate of Nursing Aide Course and
Certificate as graduate of Midwifery course after two years. Thus, the system provide her with multiple
exists from the formal education ladder and after completing the BS Nursing will make her competent
and experienced graduate.

The ladderized Education System is an improvement of the traditional education system. A student
under a traditional system enroll in first year. From there, is become an all or nothing deal for her. If she
stops on the way, she fall back to the bottom, where she first started, and treated as Drop-Out with no
competency acquired. On the other hand, enrollee in the ladderized degree course provides them with
the opportunity to climb on several Job Platforms where a graduate of Tech-Voc course can have better
paying job, then continue studying, alternating between work time and study time, or working and
studying at the same time. The good thing about this ladder is that you can climb it whenever you
choose, at your own time and at your own pace. At the end, the accumulated work experiences gives the
graduate of a ladderized program valuable competitive advantage over those who completed their
degrees within the traditional, uninterrupted span of four years.

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