REDEFINING THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPING

REDEFINING THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPING THE FUTURE WORKFORCE

WHY TALK ABOUT EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE WORKFORCE • Environment is changing • Success is not permanent • Old rules no longer apply • Need to ADAPT, LEARN, & BE CREATIVE in order to succeed

The Unemployed are mostly young, unskilled, inexperienced, males, in the urban areas Youth accounts for almost half of total unemployed Spent more years in college than the employed Incidence of unemployment tends to increase with years of education

Driving Graduate Unemployment failure in the examination or interview poor communication skills; residence of the applicant is far from the jobsite; lack of extensive work experience; and inconsistency in the submitted information and documents visà-vis claims of the applicants.

BREAKING WALLS BRIDGING GAPS

The Complete FILIPINO Student SOCIAL • Student-centric administrative services • Co-curricular activities • Social/cultural facilities & equipment AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING WE DO ACADEMIC • Faculty • Curriculum • Learning materials • Facilities • Industry partners

Our Customers Residents of the LOCALITY (some are poorest of the poor) Their Needs Skills to make them competitive in the job markets Values formation Personality development Our Objectives Placement in jobs available in the LOCALITY Upwardly mobile career paths

DEPED CHED TESDA EDUCATIONAL GOVERNANCE IMPLEMENTERS IN THE COUNTRY

TOWARDS A BETTER WORKFORCE

DEVELOPING THE FUTURE WORKFORCE : • The Tale of the University of Makati

- Locally-funded university of Makati - Founded in 1972 - Personnel Complement – (700) teaching Personnel and (200) Non Teaching - Enrolment at about 20, 000 for the last five years - 1. 9 Billion Annual Budget

Academic-Industry Partnership demic Subjects d Courseware PROFESSIONAL DEGREE COURSES Practitioner-taught Courseware and OJT ualized University Education System

A Repositioning Example-CBA General Education • Oral / Written Communications • Humanities • Mathematics • Basic Computer • Others FACULTY • Management • Accounting • Marketing • Others FACULTY Major Subjects BS Retail Management Practitioner Major Subjects • Merchandising • Management • Accounting • Marketing • Electronic POS tech • Store Opns • Customer Serv On the job training General Education • Oral / Written Communications • Humanities • Mathematics • Basic Computers • Others COURSE-BASED FOUNDATION FACULTY BSBA

The DUES Degrees Retail Management College of Business Purchasing & Supply Chain Mgt Building & Real Property Mgmt

The DUES Degrees Building Systems Technology College of Tech Mgmnt Construction Management Computer Telecom Mgmt

DUES Partners INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS Philippine Association of Building Administrators Building and Managers Association of the Philippines Philippine Institute of Supply Chain Management Personnel Management Association of the Philippines FOUNDATIONS Makati Tourism Foundation Eye Foundation Petron Foundation Junior Achievement of the Philippines European Union IT Service Center COMPANIES Toyota Philippines Otis Elevators Smart, Globe Jollibee Q-Interaction People Supporrt Accenture

Partnership Modes • Course and curriculum design • Practitioner-faculty to teach industry-relevant subjects • Faculty training Supervised on-the-job-training sessions based on actual hours required to acquire real-work experience Dual-tech compensation for OJT students Actual hiring of students upon graduation

Today, University of Makati. . • Achieved 90% employability rate • Increased enrolment from 3000 to 20, 000 students • High passing rate in board examinations • Generating an average of 200 Million income from IGPs • Leading 119 Local Colleges and Universities in the Philippines • Went on INTERNATIONALIZATION

Key to Global Competitiveness

UN SUSTAINABLE q UNIVERSAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS CALL TO ACTION TO END POVERTY q PROTECT THE PLANET AND q ENSURE THAT ALL PEOPLE ENJOY PEACE AND PROSPERITY

17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

We must never forget “who we are whom we are for and what we have to do for those for whom we are. ” Tomas Lopez Jr. University President

• “Many years from now, it will not matter how much wealth or riches we may have accumulated, but the world will be a better place because we made a difference in the lives of the people that we have served” Secretary Herminio B. Coloma, Jr. Associate Dean, AIM EVP , Manila Bulletin

Revolution in the education system is necessary if we are to use education in promoting equal opportunity to learn and in building social capital!

A Revolution is Necessary • Even for good schools, the time to change is NOW • And change must not be merely reformative: it needs to be truly TRANSFORMATIVE (and that means: REVOLUTIONARY) • Change has to be achieved first in the field of ideas, in our “mindsets” Eduardo O C Chaves Coordinator, UNESCO Chair of Education and Human Development at the Ayrton Senna Foundation (São Paulo, Brazil) Member, Microsoft International Advisory Council for Partners in Learning

REVOLUTIONIZING EDUCATION We must: • Re-conceive education • Redefine learning; and so, • Reinvent schooling Eduardo O C Chaves Coordinator, UNESCO Chair of Education and Human Development at the Ayrton Senna Foundation (São Paulo, Brazil) Member, Microsoft International Advisory Council for Partners in Learning

Are we willing to stage this REVOLUTION?