The turnover of the only Senior High School Tourism Facility in the country was held on Friday, February 3, 2017 at Lourdes National High School in Panglao, Bohol. The first phase features a suite room, deluxe and standard room, kitchen and laundry room. While the second phase unveiled also on the same day features a restaurant and a conference room. The P6M facility is a collaborative effort of the Provincial Government of Bohol, the Municipality of Panglao, the Department of Education Bohol Division, the Bohol Association of Hotels Resorts and Restaurants, the Department of Science and Technology, with Technical Assistance from the Coalitions for Change in Education Program of the Australian Embassy-The Asia Foundation partnership in the Philippines.
Built through
partnership, collaboration, synergy and coalition, the Provincial Government of
Bohol built the facility, the LGU of Panglao provided the equipment, while the
Department of Science and Technology also turned over an oven, mixer, banana
chips maker, steel racks and many others. The resorts donated the furnishings
of the rooms: the Suite Room by Bohol Beach Club, Deluxe by South Palms Resort,
the standard room by Mithi Resort and Spa, and the lobby by Amorita and Tarsier Botanika.
Governor Edgar M.
Chatto led the turnover in the presence of DepEd Region 7 officials led by Dr.
Juliet Jeruta and DepEd Bohol division led by Dr. Wilfreda Bongalos, the
Department of Science and Technology led by DOST Regional Director Edilberto L.
Paradela, BAHRR President Mr. Rommel Gonzales,
and The Asia Foundation Senior Program Officer and Theme Leader Mr. Henry
Bernabe Grageda.
The Senior High
School Tourism Facility is the training ground and laboratory for the senior
high school students at LNHS where they apply skills in housekeeping, cookery,
bread and pastry, food and beverage, front office, carpentry and EIM or
Electrical Installation and Maintenance. This is prior to their actual work
immersion in the hotels, resorts and restaurants in Grade 12.
The facility will
also become an Assessment Center for TESDA as well as the venue for
benchmarking of other Senior High Schools offering tourism-related tracks in
the region and the whole country.
The Asia
Foundation (TAF) in partnership with the Australian Embassy through the
Coalitions for Change program in Basic Education has been in partnership with
the Department of Education Bohol Division since 2014 on Senior High School
program. In May 2015, a Tourism Senior High School (SHS) Summit, dubbed, “Turo-Turismo” was organized in Panglao, Bohol. That
summit brought together different stakeholders from the province and other
divisions to develop work-plans for industry contextualization for the SHS
program with Tourism as the focus industry. In October 2015, CfC provided a
grant to the Bohol Association of Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants (BAHRR) to
implement the Turo-Turismoprogram,
which included teachers’ immersion and development of contextualized
instructional plans.
Incidentally, the
DepEd Regional Office 7 conducted the first Tourism SHS Regional Benchmarking
Activity on February 2- 3, 2017 in Bohol, specifically in four (4)
resorts to be the site of the benchmarking activities: Bellevue, Henann,
Be Grand and South Palms. This was participated in by all thirteen (13) DepEd
Divisions in Region 7 represented by the Superintendents, CID Chiefs, and the Regional
Functional Division Chiefs.
In the message of Undersecretary Dina Ocampo for the DepEd 7
benchmarking, “What small things we do today for the children, will matter in
the people they will become tomorrow.
With initiatives benchmarked against effective practices, we can be
confident that we will be proud of the people we will have tomorrow. “
(PR/vvg)
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