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A young, energetic and and a man of vision was Polytechnic University of the Philippines’ 2013 Year-end Commencement Exercises, Morning Cluster’s guest speaker last May 10. Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva spoke before 3.089 graduates and was conferred with Doctors of Humanities, Honoris Causa.
Villanueva was a three-term representative of Citizen’s Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC) Partylist before he joined the Aquino administration to lead TESDA. He was the driving force behind the Juvenile Justice Act; and was instrumental in the passing several significant legislations such as RA 9485, which sought in reducing if not eliminating red tape in the bureaucracy; RA 9189 which granted absentee voting for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs); and RA 9257 which provided additional privileges to senior citizens.
For his exemplary showing, he won back-to-back honors as one of the Ten Outstanding Legislators of the Philippines in 2004 and 2005.
As TESDA Director-General, he recognizes the importance of technical education and the need to upgrade the skills of workers. He offers the public an option to improve their lives. He seeks partnership with private organizations to ensure that graduates of technical education will be able to find decent jobs. He provides same opportunities to OFWs to upgrade their skill.
More so, Villanueva believes that the biggest contribution he could make to TESDA would be the rationalization of the TESDA Techno-Park in Taguig City. It is envisioned to be a state-of-the-art showcase of the different technical modalities including environment-friendly technologies, products proto-types and entrepreneurial opportunities. The Techno-Park will focus on producing a world-class workforce on key employment generation in such areas as agri-business, business process outsourcing and the creative industries, tourism and retirement health and wellness, general infrastructures, electronic and semi-conductors.
Villanueva is a University of Santo.Tomas (UST) 1996 graduate of Bachelor of Science in Commerce, major in Economics. In 1999, he finished Special Studies in Business Administration at the Harvard University, in Massachusetts, USA. #
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