{"id":31101,"date":"2018-02-15T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T03:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31101"},"modified":"2018-02-15T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T03:51:49","slug":"ama-education-system-offers-alternative-learning-route-that-can-lead-to-fruitful-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/02\/15\/ama-education-system-offers-alternative-learning-route-that-can-lead-to-fruitful-career\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA Education System offers alternative learning route that can lead to fruitful career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Statistics from the Technical Skills Development Authority (TESDA) bode well for students of skills-based programs. According to TESDA, seven out of 10 graduates of vocational courses easily find jobs, and nine out of 10 employers are satisfied with the performance of vocational school graduates. This means that exploring skills-based education, over traditional academic education, is now a viable option.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31103\" style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31103\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tech.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tech-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/laptop-apple-macbook-computer-2571948\/\">IMAGE SOURCE<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is what the different schools under the AMA Education System (AMAES) is aiming to respond to, offering a range of skills-based options from 3-D Game Development to Sales Channel Management.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, AMAES said that it \u201cbelieves that educational institutions should help students by providing options beyond academic courses. It has thus increased its vocational course offerings across the schools under its banner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools should help expand opportunities for students and not limit them,\u201d says Ambassador Amable R. Aguiluz V, considered the father of IT education in the Philippines and founder of AMAES. \u201cWe believe that learning is life-long and limitless, and offering more skills-based courses is our way of giving our students at AMAES institutions a wider, more extensive arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, AMAES schools offer skills-based tracks both for senior high school and college level programs.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the different courses and institutions under AMAES, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaes.edu.ph\">www.amaes.edu.ph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, AMAES said that it \u201cbelieves that educational institutions should help students by providing options beyond academic courses. It has thus increased its vocational course offerings across the schools under its banner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5824,339,5823,96,122],"class_list":["post-31101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-ama-education-system","tag-education","tag-technical-skills-development-authority","tag-technology","tag-tesda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}