29/01/2025
NSTP DAY 2025 βΌοΈπ
PSU-PCAT NSTP Day Celebration || Republic Act 9163 enabled the establishment of National Service Training Program for Tertiary Level students with an aim to promote civic consciousness among the youth and inculcate in them the spirit of nationalism and advance their involvement in public and civic affairs.
NSTP is a program designed to develop the youthβs physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-being and promote defense preparedness and ethics of service while undergoing training in any of its three program components. Its various components are specially designed to enhance the youthβs active contribution to the general welfare.
What are its three program components?
The NSTP has three components which are as follows:
i. Reserve Officersβ Training Corps (ROTC)
A program institutionalized under Sections 38 and 39 of Republic Act No. 7077 designed to provide military training to tertiary level students in order to motivate, train, organize and mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
ii. Literacy Training Service (LTS)
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.
iii. Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
It is composed of programs or 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 citizenry.
Who are required to complete the NSTP?
Students of any baccalaureate degree course or at least two-year technical vocational courses in public and private educational institutions shall be required to complete one of the NSTP components as requisite for graduation.
Exemptions only apply to:
i. Students who have already taken NSTP from a prior degree completed;
ii. Transferees and shiftees who have completed NSTP prior to transferring or shifting; and
iii. Foreign students or aliens
How much time is needed to complete the NSTP?
Each of the NSTP program components shall be undertaken for an academic period of two semesters (NSTP 1 and 2) or an equivalent one-semester integrated (NSTP 1-2) course. The allotted time for NSTP classes per semester is 54 β 90 hours.
The whole NSTP program weighs six units and should be taken for two semesters, three units each semester.
Malipayeng pagtamyaw, NSTP Family!
πΈ NSTP Media Team
