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To improve the quality of higher and technical education and research for equity
and global competitiveness
• Enhance community-based training for special groups.
• Provide access to quality and relevant Technical-Vocational Education and
Training (TVET) opportunities.
• Ensure globally-competitive TVET programs.
• Expand access to higher education.
• Integrate 21st Century competencies.
• Promote creative arts.
• Strengthen Quality Assurance Mechanism.
• Improve research, innovation, and extension services.
• Expand Government-Academe-Industry collaboration.
• Promote excellence among higher education institutions.
• Allow and attract reputed foreign professors and researchers, especially in
the Science, Technology, and Innovation field, to be appointed in higher
education institutions (See also PDP Chapter 14).

There will also be deliberate strategies to improve the employability and income-
earning potential of individuals:

To improve employability
• Encourage skills development and retooling through continuing education
and training.
• Strengthen employment facilitation services.
• Strengthen and expand internship, apprenticeship, and dual training
programs.
• Implement programs that encourage women to participate in the labor
market.

To improve productivity
• Strengthen the implementation of the two-tiered wage system or the
process by which the minimum wage is determined and the link between
wage and productivity of employees is put in place.
• Ensure safety and health in the workplace.
• Nurture workplace harmony.
To enhance labor mobility and income security
• Provide income support through an unemployment insurance and
emergency employment.
• Enhance the efficacy of the minimum wage policy.

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