ETVAO

VISION

The Equivalency and Technical-Vocational Assessment Office (ETVAO), as a facilitating unit in partnership with the University’s schools and other units, envisions a community that exemplifies excellence and innovation by accessing and pursuing learning and training to promote personal and career goals and to enhance the quality of life.

MISSION

ETVAO as a facilitating unit closely working with the University’s schools and other units shall provide opportunity and access to continuing quality education through its innovation in creating more flexible and alternative scheme of acquiring skills and knowledge.

It advocates for continuous learning opportunities using alternative system in education, and formal acknowledgement of prior learning experiences. 

In pursuit of this mission, ETVAO commits to render Excellent Quality Service Delivery in the ETVAO managed programs with utmost integrity and professionalism.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

ETVAO purports to achieve the following goals and objectives:

  1. to create a solid foundation for the dissemination of new trends, and current information that responds to challenge and change, to priority needs, competency enhancement, and professional growth of participants/students inside and outside the University;
  2.  to evolve a fast-track alternative scheme that would encourage the once-schooled to continue and complete a degree/program via the informal, non-formal, competency-based, and electronic modes or a combination of these modes; thus providing academic leverage to students by:

     

    a. offering short-term, terminal, and graduate certificate and diplomate courses that satisfy/meet the student circumstances and requirements for transferability; 

    b. constructing and sequencing related academic intervention programs to assure students optimal learning;
    c. utilizing a system for placement and follow-up of student’s performance and progress by: identifying the entry level of knowledge, skills and competencies of a student to be admitted to the degree program;
    d. building knowledge and skills that are directly useful to the trainee in their job and for future roles;
    e. providing training for areas identified as needing development;
    f. recognizing existing knowledge and prior learning. 

  1. to provide a facilitative intervention for the educational mobility of participants/students through a carefully planned and implemented series of new or modified training and other activities.
  2. to have a shared understanding of the detailed activities to be undertaken in the conduct of competency assessment with all relevant stakeholders (TESDA staff, assessment centers, assessors, candidate-applicants).

HISTORY

In compliance to the stipulated provisions of Republic Act 7722 otherwise known as the “Higher Education Act of 1994”, and in keeping with the intent of CMO, No. 35, s. 2000 specifying the Updated Policies and Guidelines on Alternative Systems of Education”, Saint Mary’s University instituted the Center for Alternative and Continuing Education (CACE) last June 2003, and later CACE was changed to Equivalency and Technical Vocational Assessment Office (ETVAO) in April 2014. It is the adjunct system of the institution that is designed to support and respond to the clamor for continuing, or lifelong learning amidst innovations, transformation, and changes in the various levels of the academe.

ETVAO hinges upon the concept of continuing education as a subsidiary path for “Education for all” using alternative delivery systems. There is a paramount need for ETVAO to establish new modes that fit the career paths and educational opportunities of students with diverse abilities, needs, work status and socioeconomic and cultural background.

Better still, there is an urgent need for the Institution to work out operational mechanisms, and alternative programs to admit students in the undergraduate programs and help them benefit optimally from them. Hence, the ETVAO crafted internal “safety” for the course programs: certificate and diplomate, delivery and evaluation schemes, policies, standards, provisions and activities-all of which are indeed the embodiment of the vision-mission of the university and the articulation of the prescribed standards.

The Center for Alternative and Continuing Education was under the headship of Dr. Nena P. Valdez later succeeded by Dr. Lina S. Calucag. Dr. Micah Ryan B. Ramel assumed the position of CACE Head on July 15, 2010. However, from November 11, 2013 to March 31, 2014, Dr. Moises Alexander T. Asuncion acted as Officer-in-Charge. Thereafter, the office was handed over to Mr. Joman J. Baliton in April 2014. On April 1, 2016, Mr. Seigfried Rommell D. Cancino assumed position as the OIC-ETVAO Coordinator. Following this, on January 2018, the appointed Officer-in-Charge was the VP for Academic Affairs, Dr. Moises Alexander T. Asuncion, until the end of May 2018. On June 04, 2018 – May 2019, the office was appointed to Dr. Mayvelyn S. Covita, concurrent Department Head of the Hospitality and Tourism Management from the School of Accountancy and Business. Following this, on June 1, 2019- present, the manning of the office was now appointed to Mrs. Joan B. Taroma, MSN, RN, as Officer-in- Charge.

ETVAO’s inception paved way to numerous opportunities to its stakeholders. With ETVAO’s mission in providing the community greater opportunity and easy access to education, in partnership with the University’s schools and other units, through its innovation in creating more flexible and alternative scheme of acquiring skills and knowledge, ETVAO has been tremendously changing and uplifting the quality of lives of its clientele and their productivity in the community.

Now, the Equivalency and Technical Vocational Assessment Office has evolved not only as an academic leverage to students but also as a vehicle towards the productivity of clients in the community.

ETVAO is currently responsible and accountable for the smooth implementation of three (3) important programs, in partnership with the University’s schools and other units, namely CHED-Authorized Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP), TESDA-Accredited Assessment Center Services Program, and Competency-based Technical Education Skills Development (CBTESD) Program.

PROGRAMS OFFERED

TESDA ACCREDITED COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT CENTERS 

for the following qualifications:

Tourism Sector:

  1. Bartending NC II
  2. Bread and Pastry Production NC II 
  3. Cookery NC II
  4. Food and Beverage Services NC II
  5. Front Office Services NC II
  6. Housekeeping NC II (full qualification)
    Housekeeping NC II (COC1)
    Housekeeping NC II (COC 2)
    Housekeeping NC II (COC 3)
    Housekeeping NC II (COC 4)

Social Community Development and Other Services:

1.Bookkeeping NC III

Health Sector:

  1. Caregiving NC II
  2. Health Care Services NC II

TESDA Accredited Training Center for the following qualifications:

  1. Bread and Pastry Production NC II
  2. Caregiving NC II 
  3. Health Care Services NC II

ETEEAP DEPUTIZED PROGRAMS:

  1. Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
  2. Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  3. Bachelor of Science in Office Administration
  4. Bachelor of Elementary Education
  5. Bachelor of Secondary Education (across majors)

Contact person and details: 

Joan B. Taroma, RN, MSN
Accredited Competency Assessment Center Manager (ACAC)/OIC-ETVAO
Saint Joseph Inn Building cp# 0917-566-2337
Official FB account: Smu Etvao

In- house Accredited Competency Assessors

Caregiving NC II

  1. Joman J. Baliton, RN, MSN
  2. Marissa Lyn A. Labangcoc, RN, MSN
  3. Joan B. Taroma, RN, MSN

Health Care Services NC II

  1. Joman J. Baliton, RN, MSN
  2. Thelma DC. Delos Reyes, RM, RN, MSN
  3. Marissa Lyn A. Labangcoc, RN, MSN
  4. Joan B. Taroma, RN, MSN

Front Office Services NC II

  1. Dr. Mayvelyn S. Covita
  2. Gayle R. Mercado

In- house Accredited Trainers

Caregiving NC II

  1. Joman J. Baliton, RN, MSN
  2. Thelma DC. Delos Reyes, RN, RM, MSN
  3. Joan B. Taroma, RN, MSN

Health Care Services NC II

  1. Joman J. Baliton, RN, MSN
  2. Marissa Lyn A. Labangcoc, RN, MSN
  3. Thelma DC. Delos Reyes, RN, RM, MSN
  4. Joan B. Taroma, RN, MSN

Bread and Pastry Production NC II

  1. George Rawson A. Guiab