Benguet State University is set to conduct a training series titled, “Drawing PATHWAYS to Employability and Entrepreneurship through University Enterprise Cooperation.” The first phase, which focuses on employability, will be on April 11-12 at the Dominador S. Garin Hall, BSU La Trinidad.
The training is a replication of the ones BSU attended through its involvement in PATHWAY which stands for Promoting the employAbility and enTrepreneurship of Higher Education graduates through innovative WAYs in the Philippines. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) are invited to join the training. Some of the topics include labour market analysis on the regional situation, Public Employment Services Office (PESO) as an Employment Centre for HEIs, and European Union Models of Employment Centres. These will be discussed by resource persons from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Ateneo de Manila, University of Alicante and BSU.
The training hopes to increase the awareness and knowledge of participants regarding global trends in employability and entrepreneurship and make them appreciate the relevance of university-enterprise cooperation in contemporary times.
PATHWAY is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and it aims to have an impact by enhancing the entrepreneurship and employability culture of higher education institutions in the Philippines to meet labor market needs and governmental reforms. The PATHWAY Project is headed by the University of Alicante-Institutional Project Management Office in Spain and the University of Montpellier in France. The Philippine partners are Ateneo de Manila University, Benguet State University, Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Saint Paul University of the Philippines, the Commission on Higher Education and the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines.**Jennyline S. Tabangcura
