This document establishes the National Service Training Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students in the Philippines. The NSTP aims to develop civic consciousness, defense preparedness, and patriotism in youth. It has three main components: Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) which provides military training; Literacy Training Service which trains students to teach literacy; and Civic Welfare Training Service which involves community service. The NSTP is a graduation requirement for all baccalaureate and two-year technical/vocational students.
This document establishes the National Service Training Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students in the Philippines. The NSTP aims to develop civic consciousness, defense preparedness, and patriotism in youth. It has three main components: Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) which provides military training; Literacy Training Service which trains students to teach literacy; and Civic Welfare Training Service which involves community service. The NSTP is a graduation requirement for all baccalaureate and two-year technical/vocational students.
This document establishes the National Service Training Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students in the Philippines. The NSTP aims to develop civic consciousness, defense preparedness, and patriotism in youth. It has three main components: Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) which provides military training; Literacy Training Service which trains students to teach literacy; and Civic Welfare Training Service which involves community service. The NSTP is a graduation requirement for all baccalaureate and two-year technical/vocational students.
This document establishes the National Service Training Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students in the Philippines. The NSTP aims to develop civic consciousness, defense preparedness, and patriotism in youth. It has three main components: Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) which provides military training; Literacy Training Service which trains students to teach literacy; and Civic Welfare Training Service which involves community service. The NSTP is a graduation requirement for all baccalaureate and two-year technical/vocational students.
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An Act Establishing the National Service
Training Program (NSTP) for the Tertiary
Level Students, Amending for the Purpose RA No. 7077 and PD No. 1706 and for Other Purpose This Act shall be known as the o It is hereby affirmed the prime duty of the Government to serve and protect its citizen. In Turn it is shall be the responsibility of all citizens to defend the security of the State and in fulfillment thereof, the government may require each citizen to render personal military or civil service. o Recognizing the youth’s virtual role in nation’s building, then the state shall promote civic consciousness among youth and shall develop their physical moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being. It shall inculcate to the youth patriotism, nationalism and advance their involvement in public and civic affairs. o In pursuit of this goals, the youth the most valuable resource of the national shall be motivated, trained, organized and mobilized in the military training, literacy, civic welfare and other similar endeavors in the service of the nation. o National Service Training Program (NSTP) - is a program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth by developing the ethic of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any of its three (3) program components. Its various components are specially designed to enhance the youth’s active contribution to the general welfare. o Reserve officer Training Corps (ROTC) – is a program institutionalized under Section 38 and 39 of RA 7077 designed to provide military training to tertiary level students In order to motivate, train, organized and mobilize them for national defense preparedness. o Literacy Training Service (LTS) – is a program designed to train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out of school youth, and other segments of society in need of their service. o Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) – refers to program of activities contributory to the general welfare and the betterment of life for the members of the community or the enhancement of its facilities, especially those devoted to improving health, education, environment, entrepreneurship, safety, recreation and morals of the citizen. o There is hereby established a National Service Training Program (NSTP) which shall form part of the curricula of all baccalaureate degree courses and at least two-years technical vocational courses and is a requisite for graduation, consisting of the following service components: o The ROTC under the NSTP shall instill patriotism, moral virtues, respect for the rights of civilians and adherence to the constitution among other, Citizenship Training shall be given emphasis in all three (3) program components. o Students, male and female of any baccalaureate degree course or at least two (2) year technical vocational courses in public and in private educational institutions shall be required to complete one (1) of the NSTP components as requisite for graduation. o Each of the aforementioned NSTP Program components shall be undertaken for an academic period of two (2) semesters.
o For any of the components of NSTP, one (1)
summer program may be formulated and adopted by the DND, CHED and TESDA. o All higher and technical and vocational institutions, public and private, must offer at least one of the program components: Provided that the state universities and colleges shall offer the ROTC component and at least one other component as education institutions may offer ROTC if they have at least three hundred and fifty (350) cadets students. o Clustering – refers to the grouping of students enrolled in different schools and taking up the same NSTP component into one (1) group under the management and supervision of a designated school. o Cross enrollment – refers to a system of enrollment where a student who is officially enrolled in an academic program of a school is allowed to enroll in the NSTP component of another school. o Clustering of affected students from different educational institutions may be done, taking into accounts logistics, branch of service and geographical consideration. Schools that do not meet the required number of students shall allow their students to cross enroll to other schools irrespective of whether or not the NSTP components in said schools are being administered by the same or other branch of service of the AFP, CHED and TESDA to which schools are identified. o The completion of ROTC training as a requisite for graduation is hereby set aside for those students who despite all their academic units as of affectivity of this Act have been allowed to graduate. o There is hereby created a National Service Corps to be composed of the graduates of the non-ROTC components members of this corps may be tapped by the State for Literacy and Civic Welfare activities through the joint effort of DND, CHED and TESDA. o Graduates of the ROTC shall form part of the Citizen Armed Force, pursuant to Republic Act No. 7077.
