After the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has closed some schools as part of its intensified efforts to crackdown technicalvocational (tech-voc) schools that failed to produce skilled graduates, it continues to assist the Department of Education in providing relevant education to tech-voc high schools under DepEd’s care.Amidst confusion that DepEd tech-voc schools are part of TESDA schools, DepEd explains that it has its own tech-voc curriculum under the Strengthened Technical-Vocational Education Program (STVEP) intended for high school students. But DepEd clarifies that this curriculum was developed with the assistance of TESDA.