QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 11098)
The Act is known as the “Ragay Polytechnic Skills Institute Act.”
It separates the CASIFMAS–Ragay Campus from the CASIFMAS main campus and converts it into a TESDA-supervised polytechnic institute to be known as the Ragay Polytechnic Skills Institute (RPSI).
TESDA (the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority).
To shift toward technical-vocational education with practical and technical skills responsive to industry and labor market demands, aligned with PQF and ASEAN integration frameworks, and to upgrade standards for competency-based, employable outcomes.
The Institute shall offer one (1) to three (3)-year TESDA-registered technical-vocational curricular skills training programs and certificate courses, including short-term courses and modular trainings.
Practical specialties mainly in aquaculture and fisheries-related aqua-trade industries, plus areas such as industrial/hard trades, tourism and hospitality, livelihood skills/entrepreneurship, technical-vocational occupation and trade skills, computer literacy and IT/digital technology, and seminars for career guidance and job placement.
It serves as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired competencies in technical-vocational skills in the entire Province of Camarines Sur.
The most disadvantaged citizens of the Municipality of Ragay and the most economically depressed areas in the province.
TESDA must determine and declare—through a formal recommendation and certificate of compliance—that the Institute has satisfactorily complied with TESDA minimum requirements and quality standards for establishment/conversion/operation of TESDA polytechnic/technology institutions.
No. It cannot offer undergraduate higher education courses without prior approval from CHED and compliance with CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 46, series of 2012. Otherwise, it remains under TESDA supervision and offers only 1–3 year technical-vocational courses.
The Institute is headed by a School Superintendent under TESDA supervision, appointed by the TESDA Director-General according to civil service rules and the applicable qualification standards.
All assets (fixed and movable), personnel, records, and documents, as well as liabilities/obligations of the CASIFMAS–Ragay Campus shall be transferred to the Institute, with the proviso that positions, rights, and security of tenure of faculty and personnel employed prior to conversion are not impaired.
They are declared property of the RPSI and are to be titled in the name of the Institute; if the Institute ceases to exist or the parcels are no longer needed, they revert to the CASIFMAS Main Campus or to the Municipality of Ragay.
Initial implementation is charged against the current year appropriations of CASIFMAS; thereafter, continued operation is to be funded through the annual General Appropriations Act. LGUs, in consultation with TESDA, may also set aside local revenues for support.
Fifteen (15) days after publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.