Question & AnswerQ&A (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1103)
The main purpose of Republic Act No. 6320 is to establish a National Trade School in the City of General Santos, known as the General Santos National Trade School, and to authorize the appropriation of funds for its establishment, operation, and maintenance.
The site for the General Santos National Trade School shall be in the City of General Santos; it must be at least eight hectares, well drained, and preferably rectangular in shape.
The school shall be under the supervision of the Bureau of Vocational Education.
Only a general education curriculum with practical arts is to be offered in the first and second years.
A vocational education curriculum will be offered in the third and fourth years.
Yes, the school shall offer short vocational courses for training in vocations needed in the locality, which shall be open to elementary school graduates.
Yes, the school shall open, as soon as feasible, two-year post-secondary technical courses.
An initial sum of five hundred thousand pesos is authorized to be appropriated from the National Treasury out of funds not otherwise appropriated.
Operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
The Act took effect upon its approval on June 19, 1971, and it was enacted without Executive approval.