DUAL EDUCATION AND
TRAINING (DET)
: About

WHAT IS DUAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING?

Dual Education and Training (DET) promotes learning in two venues: the school and the company. The DET approach maximizes the potentials of learners to gain industry-demanded skills that are crucial for the labor market and sufficiently prepare learners for immediate employment.

DET supports the development of a skilled workforce that meets labor market needs. Better skilled workers have a better chance for employment.

A skilled workforce, on the other hand, improves the economic competitiveness of companies and countries, further attracting investment and fostering job growth.

Download the DET Guidebook (PDF).

CHAMBERS' ROLE IN DET

Chambers can play a significant role in mediating between the two actors in DET: the industry and the academe. Chambers can promote the DET approach and facilitate and maintain the public-private dialogue between all stakeholders.

Specifically, chambers can benefit through:

  • Additional human resources development services for member companies
  • Positioning themselves as knowledge holders in human resources development
  • Enhanced membership relations which lead to membership retention and recruitment
  • Income-generation and financial self-sustainability

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES

  • Influence on training content and delivery
  • Higher productivity from well-trained workforce
  • Increased worker-retention rate saves recruitment cost and time
  • Addressing the academe-industry mismatch by actively engaging in the competency definition

BENEFITS FOR LEARNERS

  • Acquire personal and social skills that improve confidence
  • Exposure to real work life that teaches market-oriented skills
  • High probability of direct employment after training program completion
  • Increased chances to advance their careers faster and earn more

LOCALIZED DET IN THE PHILPPINES

"Dual Education and Training gives my company assurance that standards are met and that quality is maintained. We are no longer forced to look for staff in Manila which saves us a lot on recruitment costs."

Simonette Gusi, General Manager Acuatico Beach Resort

Hospitality

"We benefit not only with added manpower to our organization. It’s a tool we use in recruitment. When we train and they are interested to work in the company, they become part of the talent pool of the company."

Maria Nerissa Austria, Senior HR Executive MHE-Demag Philippines

Metalworking Technology

"Our company has been an immersion venue for industrial training. As an industry partner of the project, we were actively involved in the design and development of the relevant curriculum. Contents were tailored towards the needs of the industry"

Joseph Nelson Bascones, President of Central Seafoods, Inc.

Food Manufacturing

"We are privileged to have been given a chance to train our youth in microfinance so that if they choose to do so, they can become productive members of the industry and instruments in uplifting the lives of their respective families."

Cristina Bulaon, Chief Operating Officer, People Bank of Caraga, Inc.

Microfinance and Bookkeeping

"We produce graduates with the skills needed in different industries. We find the program very good and aligned to the thrust of the school and our company which are providing skills and employment, respectively."

Paulette Liu

CONSTRUCTION

DISCLAIMER

This website was developed under the K to 12 PLUS Project (2013-2020), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and initiated to support the Enhanced Basic Education reform in the Philippines.

German cooperation partners in this multi-stakeholder project included AFOS, GIZ, GPCCI, SBFIC, sequa gGmbH, and ZDH. Philippine cooperation partners included PCCI, CCCI, and Mindanao Microfinance Council.

COOPERATION PARTNERS

AFOS – AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation
CCCI – Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc.
GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
GPCCI – German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry
PCCI – Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry
SBFIC – Savings Bank Foundation for International Cooperation
ZDH – Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks