Physical Organization

• NSTP


  National Service Training Program - a program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any of its three (3) program components
• NSTP program components


  • Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
  • Literacy Training Service (LTS)
  • Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
• ROTC


  A program institutionalized under Section 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
• LTS


  A program designed to train students to become teachers of literacy and numerical skills to school children, out of school youth, and other segments of society in need of their service
• CWTS


  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, recreation and morals of the citizenry
• All incoming freshmen students, male and female, enrolled in any baccalaureate and in at least two (2)-year technical-vocational or associate courses, are required to complete one (1) NSTP component of their choice, as a graduation requirement
• NSTP has been implemented since

  Start of school year 2002-2003
• NSTP duration


  Each of the NSTP components is undertaken for an academic period of two (2) semesters and is credited for three (3) units per semester with fifty-four (54) to ninety (90) training hours per semester
• One-summer NSTP program


  A one-summer program in lieu of the two (2)-semester program may be designed, formulated and adopted by (DND), (CHED), and (TESDA), subject to the capability of the school and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to handle the same
• Cross-enrollment for NSTP


  Schools that do not meet the required number of students in order to conduct a program component or do not offer the component chosen by their students shall allow the students to cross enroll to other schools, irrespective of whether that school is under CHED or TESDA; and for the ROTC, whether they are managed by different AFP branches of service
• NSRC


  National Service Reserve Corps - Graduates of the non-ROTC components shall belong to this corps which could be tapped by the States for literacy and civic welfare activities
• AFP Citizen Armed Force


  Graduates of the ROTC component shall form part of this, subject to DND requirements
• Agencies monitoring NSTP implementation

  • CHED regional offices
  • TESDA provincial and district offices
  • DND-AFP through major service reserve commands and their ROTC units
• All higher and technical-vocational educational institutions offer at least one (1) of the NSTP components while State universities and colleges offer the ROTC component and at least one other NSTP component. Private schools that have at least 350 student cadets offer the ROTC components through its Department of Military Science and Tactics (DMST)
• NSRC mission


  To provide a trained and motivated manpower pool that can be tapped by the State for civic welfare, literacy, and other similar endeavors in the service of the nation
• NSRC functions


  • Assist in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and rehabilitation programs
  • Serve as an auxiliary to the Disaster Coordinating Council (DCC) response units
  • Assist in the promotion of civic welfare activities
  • Assist in the implementation of literacy programs
  • Assist in socioeconomic development
  • Assist in environmental protection
  • Perform other similar endeavors
• Core values of NSTP

  • Unity
  • Patriotism
  • Faith in God
  • Respect for life
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Freedom
  • Equality
  • Peace
  • Concern for Family
  • Concern for the Environment
  • Volunteerism