Joji Ilagan International Schools

Joji Ilagan Career Center Foundation, Inc. (doing business as the Joji Ilagan International Schools, and abbreviated as JIB) is a conglomerate of schools under the JIB Group of Companies, based in Davao City, Philippines. It is founded and headed by its chairwoman, Joji Ilagan Bian, to which the school is named after her.
It specializes in tourism, hospitality, culinary and entrepreneurship courses.
History.
Joji lIagan Career Centre Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1982 by businesswoman and educator Purita Arsenia "Joji" Ilagan, in a four-classroom facility in Anda Street (now F. Iñigo Street), Davao City. After recently been graduated with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, she thought of putting up a vocational school that would give holistic training and was capable of meeting the demand of the job market at that time.
The school eventually moved to its current location in Governor Chavez Street, Davao City and established vocational programs such as Computer Secretarial, Dressmaking, and Hotel and Restaurant Management. As it grew it eventually offered baccalaureate and vocational courses in Hotel and Restaurant Management and Tourism Management.
In 2009, JIB established the first culinary school in Mindanao, the Institute of International Culinary and Hospitality Entrepreneurship or ICHEF. It initially offered a 2-year diploma program in Culinary in partnership with Technical and Further Education (TAFE) of New South Wales Western Sydney Institute. Later on, it also opened a 4-year Bachelor of Science in Culinary Management, being one of the few schools in the Philippines offering the said degree program.
In 2010, JIB expanded further into General Santos City as it opened the Joji Ilagan International School of Hotel and Tourism Management. It initially offered culinary programs and later HRM and tourism programs.
Sister schools.
The Joji Ilagan International Schools is composed of a network of exclusive schools based in Davao City and General Santos City. The campuses are overseen and monitored by government departments, such Department of Education (DepEd), Technical Skills and Development Authority (TESDA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
Pursuant to TESDA compliance, the school offers ladderized education as well, a program that allows vocational students to pursue college easily, having their previous vocational course merits credited into their college curriculum.
Academic units.
Basic education programs.
JIB also has pre-school and elementary programs under Stockbridge American International School. Senior high school programs are also offered in JIB-CBT, ICHEF and JIB-IS.