Friday, August 17, 2007 Training group offers discount, more courses
A LIVELIHOOD and technology center is offering more training courses to equip people with skills related to chemical and industrial services.
Nego-Skwela has added new courses that range from basic and advanced fiber glass making to electroplating.
It is also offering training courses related to computer and electronics in line with the boom in the information technology sector.
Nego-Skwela, which was founded in Quezon City by the Skill Power Institute, expanded to Cebu in 2002. It has been offering various training courses, including arts and craft, food and technology, business management and agricultural tasks.
Nego-Skwela senior marketing officer Jean Saniel Murillo said the training center’s trainees often come from middle- to upper-income household, but it wants to attract other market segments by providing discounts on fees.
Those who register five days prior to the start of the course can get as much as 15 percent discount.
Murillo said Nego-Skwela is also open to installment payment scheme.
A half-day training costs P1,200 while a whole day course has a corresponding fee of P1,600. Courses that run for two days cost P2,600.
Murillo said students are provided with all the materials needed in the training.
Training courses also provide information on starting a business and supply acquisition.
“Instead of giving dole outs to our poor brothers, let us teach them technology courses,” Eladio Guevarra of Nego-Skwela said in a statement.
Nego-Skwela will begin its next set of trainings on Friday. Apart from its Cebu branch, Nego-Skwela centers can be found in 12 areas in Luzon. (TEP)
