TESDA scholarship and student assistance programs play a big part in the skills and manpower development of our country. In fact, there are more than 300 thousand TVET graduates in the entire country from January to June of this year alone. This means that free training and assessment thru various scholarship programs is indeed playing a big role in helping educate our mid level workers to be able to compete with their counterpart in the local and international job market. As of this writing, there are four TESDA scholarship programs, they are: