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     Caloocan City Mayor Enrico Echiverri on Sunday announced the opening of the city’s first business and technical skills-oriented public high school in June 2008. It is named Urduja Business High School, which were later change into Caloocan City Business High school in 2011. According to Mayor Echiverri, Caloocan City Business High School is a government-run business high school originally known as Urduja High School located in Barangay 172, in the city’s first district.

 

He said that what sets the Urduja Business High School apart from other secondary high schools is that "besides following the Basic Education Curriculum it also offers business related and management subjects which educate student's through out their high school year

 

    Honorable Recom Echiverri said "an apprentice of the public trade school is expected to learn essential skills and capabilities to be self-reliant and have a strong business sense".

 

     Urduja Elementary School principal Carmelita Kilala said other specialized secondary schools, like science high schools, may emphasize additional science and math subjects into their curriculum. "With the city’s business high school, students learn not only math for example but business math, business English instead of basic English, and so on," In addition Principal Kilala said. "Students would also be introduced to basic and simple accounting, finance, information technology systems, marketing, organizational behavior, human resource management, and problem solving analysis," . 

 

    Mayor Echiverri mentioned some 200 applicants were able to pass the rigid entrance examinations facilitated by faculty members of the Caloocan City Science High School about a month ago. He also hopes that his "pet project" in partnership with the Division of City Schools would result in more entrepreneurs and businessmen rather than employees being produced by Caloocan in the near future.