A Flower Arranging School?
The first in the Philippines and in Asia, the Institute of Philippine Floral Techniques (iPhFT) is a school that formally teaches the art and science of floral arranging. IPHFT offers a technical-vocational diploma in a once-a-week, three-hours-per-session, 40-weeks-long program.
Whether one is already in the flower trade, an enthusiast or one who does not know a thing about arranging flowers, the curriculum is comprehensive and designed with the end result of arming students with all the knowledge and skills to execute their own designs instead of mimicking them. Periodic written, practical and oral examinations keeps everyone in IPHFT focused on the desired goal – that students think-and-do instead of see-and-do.
The Institute of Philippine Floral Techniques is the Philippine franchise of the highly successful Instituto Mexicano Tecnico Floral (IMTF) in Mexico that boasts of five campuses with more international franchises streamlined in the coming months.
iPhFT was established to address the need to professionalize the Philippine floral industry and to instruct and guide floral enthusiasts and those in the trade to pursue their passions in a formal setting. iPhFT is the perfect collaboration between well-known, established personalities and authorities in both the Philippine floral industry and education. iPhFT is led by John Ong of Jasam and former DepEd NCR Director Dr. Corazon D. Santiago.
Supported by both Philippine and international trade related groups and companies, iPhFT seeks to formalize and standardize floral arranging not just as an art but as a science and trade. The ten-month, once-a-week technical-vocational course on flower arranging under an IMTF-trained faculty, will cover all standard/basic areas in floral arranging leading up to the establishment and operation of flower shops.
iPhFT Board of Directors
- John C. Ong, President
- Mabelle Santiago-Rubia, Vice-President
- April Ong, Corporate Secretary
- Corazon D. Santiago, Treasurer
- Susie T. Ong, Assistant Treasurer
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