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Jacobo Z. Gonzales Memorial School of Arts and Trades

The Jacobo Z. Gonzales Memorial School of Arts and Trades (JZGMSAT) is a government school mandated to provide trade technical curriculum for high school graduates, post secondary trade curriculum and trade opportunity for the province of Laguna. It was established by virtue of Republic Act 1905 in 1960. The school was formerly known as Biñan National School of Arts and Trades situated in San Antonio, Biñan a municipality within the first district of Laguna, Philippines.Was re-named JZGMSAT (by virtue of Provincial Council Resolution No. 97-A) in honor of the late Congressman Jacobo Z. Gonzales. After the tri-focalization of the educational system in Philippines, and the passage of Republic Act 7786 (otherwise known as TESDA Act of 1994) the school was then transferred its supervision/administration to Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). The school had focused its programs to the technical- vocational education and training providing a good opportunity of its graduate for labor employment in the locality. The school is approximately 35 km South of Metro Manila and the only public technical-vocational school in the province of Laguna.

Location

JZGMSAT is a TESDA administered school strategi- cally located in the first district of Laguna and is nestle in the area where industrial development is located. The 1st District of Laguna is the gateway of industrial development in CALABARZON. The school primarily served the town of Binan, San Pedro and Sta Rosa as well as in the neighboring towns of the 2nd District of Laguna and part of the Cavite Area. It accommodate the graduates of 18 high schools wit- hin the vicinity and particularly supply the needed trai- ned workforce of the 184 companies in the surroun- dings. Likewise, the school also help the community by providing relevant livelihood training programs.

Core business

JZGMSAT is an educational institution which is mandated to performed four major core business functions namely, a) provision of instruction, b) conduct of research and extension, c) provision of outreach programs, and d) implementation of income generation activities. The schools’ major business is the provision of instruction, where all resources are poured in.The aim is to provide relevant training program that would give opportunity to the beneficiaries for their employability as well as for the upliftment of their living conditions. In the area of instruction several programs were lined-up to produce employable graduates such as: DIT, COT, Short Tech-Voc programs and competency assessment. The conduct/provision of research and extension programs is an activity which is installed for purposes of technology updates as well as information available outside the school.This activity is conducted to provide guidance of the school what program to offer and what are relevant technology and their employment requirement.This program is conducted purely for information updates, research activity are purely for institutional consumption onlyThe outreach program is offered by the institution for livelihood activities.The training program conducted are brought out to the community to insure wide participation and for economy purposes. While, Income Generating Program is one of the business installed by the institution for financial augmentation purposes.The operation utilizes the students manpower to engage in entrepreneurship activities or purposes of training the students as well as providing them opportunity to earn while learning.