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(SDN) — Philippine-wide the public education sector can still stand improvement concerning the need for more classrooms.
Adequate number of classrooms is a potential path to improve quality education because students will no longer be put in a classroom that is crowded, for a crowded classroom may lead to a deteriorating students’ grasp of their lessons, teachers would be overstretched leading to stress.
When speaking of lack of classrooms the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is, arguably, one of the neediest.
Fortunately for the Bangsamoro region the parliamentary regional government has the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE), one of the autonomous government’s line agencies.
Under the leadership of Mindanao peace process stalwart Mohagher M. Iqbal, MBHTE Minister, the education ministry buckled down to work, obviously recognizing the long yearning for quality education for Moro children and other inhabitants of the region.
The BARMM was established only in 2019 by virtue of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) as the legal implementing mechanism of the March 27, 2014 Comprehensive Agreement of the Bangsamoro (CAB).
The MBHTE has reported that it’s Education Facilities Sector has already turned over a total of 387 classrooms in the 10 schools division offices in the region.
The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education, through its Education Facilities Section, has turned over a total of 387 classrooms in the 10 schools division offices in the region.
“Of these number, 33 classrooms were funded under the Transitional Development Impact Fund (TDIF), 12 from Contingent Fund (CF)2020, and 342 from the 2018 Basic Educational Facilities Fund (BEFF),” Minister Iqbal’s office reported.
Moreover, a total of 14 units of facilities were also completed. These include hand wash facilities, water and sanitation, solar panels, among others,” it added.
The three sources for the classroom and facilities projects provided funds totaling Php518,711,660.63.
Comprising the Bangsamoro autonomous region are the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi as well as 63 villages designated as Special Geographic Area (SGA) in North Cotabato province (which itself is not part of BARMM). — EKU (✓)