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DepEd, Smart team up in ALS skills training

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The Department of Education is integrating skills and livelihood training with its Alternative Learning System, which offers non-formal education to out-of-school youth and adults unable to complete their basic education.

It inaugurated its pilot Alternative Learning System Education and Skills Training Learning Center in Lawaan, Eastern Samar.

The initiative is designed to produce ALS completers with academic and technical competencies suitable for immediate employment.

In support of the initiative, Smart Communications donated a School-in-a-Bag package, a portable digital classroom primarily intended for remote schools and ALS communities with limited electricity and internet connection.

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The unit comes in a weather-resistant backpack containing a solar panel and battery, a teacher’s laptop and tablet, a Smart pocket WiFi, a projector, a DVD player, a TV, and student tablets. 

Installed in the tablets is educational content such as the Learn Smart literacy apps developed in partnership with the DepEd and academic institutions nationwide.

DepEd will set up four more ALS-EST centers across the country, in partnership with the Australian Government, through their Basic Education Sector Transformation program, and in cooperation with the Philippine Business for Social Progress.

Present at the inauguration of the first training center and turnover of the Smart donation were DepEd Undersecretary and ALS-EST Program Champion Nepomuceno Malaluan; DepEd Undersecretary for External Partnerships Tonisito M.C. Umali, Esq.; Australian Ambassador Steve J. Robinson AO, and his wife Rhonda; and Smart’s Education Program Head Stephanie V. Orlino.

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