Section 5Sec./Art. 5

Compliance with TESDA Requirements.

The provisions of this Act notwithstanding, the conversion of the CASIFMAS Ragay Campus into the RPSI shall become operationally effective only upon the determination and declaration of the TESDA, through the issuance of a formal recommendation and certificate of compliance, that the Institute has satisfactorily complied with the minimum requirements and quality standards prescribed by TESDA governing the following: (a) standard procedures and guidelines (SPGs) for the establishment, or conversion and operation of TESDA polytechnic institute of technical education and TESDA technology institution; (b) operational sustainability of the polytechnic institute established herein, such as, but not limited to, licensed faculty-trainors and personnel, equipment, training and laboratory facilities, instructional materials, and other standard requirements as TESDA-polytechnic institute; (c) sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirement of the TESDA polytechnic institute hereto established; (d) assurance that the training programs offered are fully aligned with the minimum standards of competency-based quality technical-vocational skills technology and needs of the host municipality (Ragay) and adjacent areas served in the Province of Camarines Sur in the context of the ASEAN and PQF framework for technical-vocational education; and (e) compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities as may be necessary and applicable in the conversion establishing the herein TESDA-polytechnic institute.

The Institute, however, shall not offer undergraduate higher education courses without prior approval of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and upon its compliance with the minimum requirements of CHED stipulated in CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 46, series of 2012, to operate as a college or higher education institution (HEI): Provided, That, the Institute shall remain under the supervision and administration of the TESDA and shall continue to offer one (1) to three (3)-year technical-vocational courses in the field of aquaculture, fisheries, industrial education and trade technology, and such other relevant technical-vocational curricular programs and other related courses to meet the needs of the province as a whole.