Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) offers short term courses for individuals willing to study online or on training centers nationwide. You can choose from the wide range of courses that will suit your interest.
List of TESDA Short Term Courses
This course will teach you everything that involves cars. Starting from the performing gas and diesel tune-up, testing and repairing automotive wires and lightning, preventive maintenance of the under chassis, servicing in the automotive battery service ignition system and overall automotive shop maintenance.
2. Baking and Pastry
This course will teach you the basics of cake decorating, desserts, pastry, and bread making. This is a good start for individuals planning to work in hotels, pastry shops and restaurants.
This course will teach you on how to become a professional barista. You will be taught things like serving alcoholic/non-alcoholic drinks, hot drinks and how to manipulate a coffee maker.
4. Beauty Care/Cosmetology
This course will teach you everything about beauty care. You will be trained to perform massage, manicure, pedicure, hand spa, body scrub, foot spa, facial treatment and how to apply make-up.
This course will teach you on how to slaughter pig or cattle. You will have to deal with the operational knowledge, attributes as well as skills of slaughter operators.
This course will teach you on how to handle calls and interact with customers.
This course will teach you on how to provide care and support to both infants/toddlers and elderly. You will also be trained in cleaning their living room, dining room, bedrooms, bathroom, iron fabrics, prepare meals, and respond to emergency cases.
8. Commercial Cooking
This course will teach you on how to cook hot and cold meals. You also be taught on how to use several kitchen tools.
9. Computer Hardware Servicing
This course will teach you on how to troubleshoot and other advanced servicing strategies. It will require a hands-on training to make you the best Technical Support Staff.
10. Computer Programming
This course will teach you on how to write codes that are used in running several computer programs.
11. Consumer Electronics
This course will teach you on how to assemble/disassemble the consumer electronic products and their systems, repair products such as audio/video and their systems, domestic appliances and cellular phones as per their industry standards.
12. Culinary Arts
This course will teach you basic techniques used in a professional kitchen. You will also need to participate in hands-on training.
13. Crane Operator
This course will teach you on how to deal with cranes such as offshore cranes and static hydraulic cranes.
14. Dressmaking and Tailoring
This course will teach you on how to draft, cut and sew fabrics which will turn to items of clothing.
15. Events Management Services
This course will teach you on how to do event coordination that is held in hotels, restaurants, conference centers, clubs, motels, and luxury liners.
This course will teach you on how to perform farming operations.
This course will teach you on how to provide overall housekeeping services for guests.
18. Food and Beverages Services
This course will teach you everything about food and beverages.
19. Foreign Language
This course will teach you on how to speak Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese Nihongo, Spanish, and English.
20. Massage Therapy
This course will teach you on how to provide relief and comfort from people suffering from various physical illnesses.
21. Medical Transcription
This course will teach you on how to prepare written medical reports from audio recording dictated by medical professionals.
22. Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Servicing
This course will teach you on how to install, maintain, service and repair refrigeration and air-conditioning units.
23. Visual Graphic Design Animation
This course will teach you about Photoshop, creating vectors and a lot more.
The duration of each TESDA course varies from days to months. You can go to the nearest training school or visit their website for more information.