Author : Redoble, Tomasito G.

Summary : This study was conducted to find out the personal characteristics of the trainees, some characteristics of the centers participating in the region's skill training program and its trainees, reactions of the trainees on the training program, and the relationships between some of the characteristics of the trainee like sex, age, educational attainment, initial capital and the lenght of the training period with his achievement in the skill training program, and to evolve policy guidelines that might bring about changes for future training programs. This study was conducted in Sulum Tawi-Tawi and Zamboanga del Sur. There were 350 respondents composed of 200 males and 150 females with 49 percent married. The findings disclosed that more of the respondents had intermediate and secondary levels of educational attainment. Before the training, 43 percent of them were jobless. After the training, 19 percent were immediately employed either by the government or private agencies, and 54 percent ventured on self-employment enterprises with an average monthly income of P3,783.02. The remaining, 26 percent, however, were still unemployed. The study further revealed that out of the 17 skill crafts offered by the three centers, automotive had more enrolees followed by garments. The married respondents would like their children to earn a college degree while some would settle for a two-year vocational technical education.