NEGROS Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. met with executives of Buglas Foundation Inc., a partner organization of Dualtech Training Center, for the approval of a technical vocational scholarship program to Negrense students.
Roger Sarmiento, assistant to the president, and Felipe Espinosa, treasurer, all of Buglas Foundation Inc., had a meeting at the Governor’s Office on August 16, together with Provincial Scholarship Program head Karen Dinsay.
Dualtech Training Center is a technical school in Calamba, Laguna, with current 1,464 scholars from different provinces in the country.
According to Dualtech executive director Jerry Webb Muhi, their training center has produced over 12,000 graduates since 1982, and of whom 98 percent have become gainfully employed within a year after graduation.
He said they have been producing several entrepreneurs and workers in industrial parks located in Calabarzon, NCR, and even abroad.
Dualtech’s main program is on electromechanics technology that teaches basic skills, industrial skills, personal development, and further knowledge that include digital electronics and basic automation.
Marañon, Dualtech, and Buglas Foundation will soon sign a Memorandum of Agreement for the proposed scholarship, which will be implemented next year.
The scholarship program aims to produce high-quality electromechanics technicians for the industrial complexes of Negros Occidental and the growing industries in the country as well, and help many poor but deserving young Negrense men to get a degree in electromechanics under the dual training system. (PR)