GLORY BE THY GLORIA!

STUDENTS each receiving P7,000.00 cash allowance from the ‘Pangulong GLORIA Scholarships’ are glorifying the President.

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur – Scholarship funds from Tesda is making a euphoria in this part of the Muslim region as hundreds of students are receiving cash allowances by the thousands of pesos each. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who’s the scholarship program is being named, is venerated by the Maranao for allowing millions of money flowing down the beneficiaries untouched by corruption.

The Cali Paramedical College (Cali) in Marawi, a school providing short courses for Tesda is giving the first half of the P7,000.00 cash allowance for each of the 300 Scholars taking a 6-month medical training. The amount has equivalent billing for the school fees making a total grant of more than 11 thousand pesos for the scholar or about 4 million pesos government grants for the summer in the Cali.

This June opening of classes, the school is expected to double the number of scholars receiving grants from the PGS, a newly enhanced financing scheme in the Tesda scholarship program. Cali is taking pilot implementation of PGS in the province.

All other schools providing training for Tesda are also receiving the grant. This is an added provision to the free training, a scheme intended to ensure a student continue schooling until they acquire competent skills for a job on the waiting as Tesda executives are harping solution to the country’s job-labor mismatch.