Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 3742)
The main purpose is to create a Bureau of Vocational Education to strengthen, promote, coordinate, and expand vocational education programs and enhance the socio-economic program of the Philippines through developing skilled manpower in various vocational courses.
The Bureau of Vocational Education is created under the Department of Education.
They are appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the Philippines.
The Director receives a salary of eight thousand eight hundred thirty-two pesos per annum while the Assistant Director receives eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum.
Divisions of vocational education in the Bureau of Public Schools, their personnel, appropriations, equipment and tools, records, school plants, agricultural, rural, trade-technical, fishery, and other vocational schools and related services, except those financed by city governments.
Personnel of the Home Economics Division who are engaged in the supervision of home economics in elementary general high schools remain with the Bureau of Public Schools.
The Director of Vocational Education holds the power of administration and supervision over vocational and trade-technical schools.
No, the complete administration and supervision of all public elementary schools and general high schools remain with the Bureau of Public Schools.
The Director has authority and powers similar to those vested upon directors of bureaus and offices under existing laws.
Reorganization must ensure maximum efficiency and standardized salary scales commensurate with duties, without laying off current officials or employees or reducing their salary or rank.
Thirty thousand pesos is appropriated for the initial organization and operation of the Bureau.
All inconsistent laws, executive orders, administrative orders, proclamations, rules, and regulations or parts thereof are repealed or modified accordingly.
The Act took effect upon its approval on June 22, 1963.