Pangulong Gloria Scholarship

In line with the Economic Resiliency Program of Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Pangulong Gloria Scholarships provides free training, training support fund and free competency assessment to support job creation and job preservation.

Objectives of the Pangulong Gloria Scholarships
  • To produce a pool of qualified and globally competent workforce who are JOB READY
  • To develop skills and competencies of the unemployed and the underemployed through training programs for pre-employment, skills upgrading, and productivity enhancement
  • To empower public and private TEK-BOK Providers in expanding their absorptive capacities and to enable them to offer programs for carious qualifications including higher levels of technology where jobs are available in the labor market.
Program Packages
On-Shore Scholarships
  • Massive Training in the communities for the unemployed, underemployed, displaced workers and returning OFWs.
  • Enterprise-based Group Training Schemes with industries/sectors/associations and other bodies for sectoral skills demand, such as training for work programs with DPWH and other government institutions and non-government institutions
  • Massive FREE Assessment and certification
  • FREE Workplace language skills proficiency programs
  • Scholarships for the Ladderized Education Program
  • To venture into high demand critical skills that have high paying jobs such as aviation, aeronautics, mechatronics and instrumentation
Off-shore Scholarships
  • Italy
  • Hongkong
  • Singapore
Trainers Training
  • To harness the acquired technologies, experience and expertise of displaced skilled workers and returning OFWs, among others, to become Tek-Bok trainers.
Institutional Partners
  • To provide incentives to Tek-Bok Providers that will expand their capabilities and capacities in higher technologies of Tek-Bok.
Qualification Requirements
  • At least 15 years old
  • Has taken the National Career Assessment Examination or the Youth Profiling for Starring Careers
  • Be unemployed, underemployed, retrenched/displaced worker or returning OFW
Program Modality - GROUP TRAINING SCHEME (GTS)
  • Tek-Bok Providers (TBP-GTS) - GTS Through the public and private TBPs shall be done through this award of scholarship to a group of 15 to 25 scholars per class or per qualification at any one time.
  • Enterprise-based (EB-GTS) - GTS though partnership agreements with industry/associations/groups/bodies to provide pre-employment to new workers and upgrading and re-tooling to existing workers to increase their productivity.
Scholarship Benefits
  • Free career profiling
  • Free full cost of training
  • Training support fund
  • Free competency
  • Employment referral
Where to apply for the Pangulong Gloria Scholarships
  • Call TESDA Hotline 887-7777
  • Text TESDA SMS 0917-4794370
  • Email contactcenter@tesda.gov.ph
  • Visit nearest TESDA Office