The Regional Training Center (RTC) – Baguio has started the pilot implementation of the Biometric-enabled Scholarship Registration System (BSRS) to ensure that Technical Education and Skills Development Authority’s (TESDA) scholarship programs are being implemented.

TESDA Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Information and Communication Technology Office (ICTO) Director Jeffrey Ian Dy led the project launched and assisted the initial 25 scholars of Tile Setting NC II in their enrollment.

The agency has launched the BSRS as part of their digitization as groundwork for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).

The BSRS main project feature is to serve as a control measure to mitigate fraudulent scholarship claims by instituting facial recognition biometric technology into the scholarship registration and attendance reporting.

Facial recognition executes a stricter scheme to ensure conscientious and effective way to eliminate unnecessary processes in the course of scholarship implementation.

Aside from RTC-Baguio, the TESDA Women’s Center, MUNTIPARLASTAPAT District Training and Assessment Center, Pasay-Makati District Training and Assessment Center, and Regional Training Center in the National Capital Region have also started the pilot implementation of BSRS.

Meanwhile, the agency is planning to start its full implementation in all regions by March this year. ###

Author: Romar D. Agpes and PIAD

For more information, please contact:

Stephanie Nicole M. Peligman

Information Officer, TESDA-CAR

0949-991-2364/0917-530-9361