The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) RO2 received 10,511 slots of the Pangulong Gloria Scholarship for implementation in Region 02 Calendar Year 2009. Out of the said slots, TESDA Provincial Offices got a share of 6,655 slots broken down as follows:  Batanes - 119, Cagayan - 3,200, Isabela - 1,977, Nueva Vizcaya - 960 and Quirino - 379. These were distributed to all private and public training institutions with TVET registered programs.

Ms. Susan Kerr, Principal Human Resource Specialist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) together with Dr. Magdalena P. Butad, Project Coordinator of the Technical Education and Skills Development Project, Engr. Joy P. Agustin, Project Development Officer IV of the Civil Works Division and Mr. Riyenzi G. Delos Santos, Project Development Officer IV a=of the Monitoring Divisions visited Region 02 last March 9 & 10 2009.

The Isabela State University in Echague, Isabela was provided a scholarship grant worth P1,980,400.00 from the Pangulong Gloria Scholarship (PGS) in support to its technical and vocational programs.
 
Dr. Romeo O. Quilang, the ISU President expressed his readiness to join hands with TESDA to implement the PGS programs by signing the Affidavit of Undertaking (AOU) during the PGS Conference held at ISU Echague Campus last February 4, 2009.

In line with the filling up of the vacant technical positions which were processed in the TESDA Central Office, a total of five (5) employees were promoted effective March 16, 2009 as follows:  Zenaida Tuliao as Supervising TESD Specialist of TESDA Quirino Provincial Office and Evelyn P. Caday, Rogelio C. Rambuyan and Joel Dominador C. Canapi as Senior TESD Specialists.
 

As the world top economies tumbled into recession, severe downturns can be seen where the hardest hit is the labor sector. Everybody is affected while the government and the private sectors hand in hand, come to the utmost rescue.
 

TESDA RO2 recently participated in the various activities of the DOLE in line with its anniversary.

A briefing and Workshop on TESDA OPES was held in the morning of December 22, 2008 to thresh out problems encountered in the preparation of the new OPES. This was attended by all TESDA regional and provincial personnel, school administrators, administrative officers, accountants and instruction supervisors among others.

"One Christmas morning, they woke up with beaming eyes and gladdened hearts holding the Christmas package of scholarship from the President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo - Training for Work Scholarship Program."

TESDA Region 02 gets 13 Million Scholarship Funds from Region 02 Congresspersons.

Philippine-Korean government enters into Memorandum of Agreement with commitment to train prospective workers for Korea. Korean Language training is given to participants for free... The training started last August 4, 2008 and expected to be finished on September 5, 2008. This training is being subsidized by PGMA-TESP and conducted directly by Korean volunteer Sang-A Kim. Series of programs will be conducted within a period of two years.