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COTABATO CITY (SDN) — More teaching personnel are entering the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) under Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal’s leadership.
The MBHTE is one of the 15 primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Since he assumed the leadership in 2019 of the MBHTE, Iqbal had already green-lighted the appointments of 4,107 new teaching personnel and 673 non-teaching personnel. The hirings, obviously, are part of the ministry’s initiatives to lift the quality of education in the Bangsamoro region.
As part of the reforms under his leadership, the education chief had also (and continued) to build new school buildings to add more classrooms in many parts of the BARMM, distribution of MBHTE-designed armchairs, supply of IT equipment and devices, Teachers’ Kits, Learners’ Kits, and other school-related supplies.
Established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the BARMM is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction. With the recent plebiscite at SGA, the BARMM now has eight new municipalities as residents voted “Yes”.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities (plus eight newly established under the SGA: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur.
On June 7, Iqbal will lead the mass signing of appointments and oathtaking of 77 teaching personnel to be held at the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA) Building, Bangsamoro Government Center (BGC), Cotabato City.
Here’s complete list of new appointees of MBHTE for teaching posts:
MBHTE Media Division Head Mobin “Moby” Panda told SDN – SciTech & Digital News the new appointees are former provisional teachers who passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). He said they are to be re-appointed to their posts.
“This is one of the promises of Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal that no provisional teachers would be left out as long as they passed LET, and then re-appointed as permanent employees.”
Panda said this is the reason the MBHTE helped out the provisional teachers with a free LET review.
The new appointees are from Basilan; Lanao del Sur I; Lanao del Sur II; Marawi City; Maguindanao del Sur; Maguindanao del Norte; Sulu; and Tawi-Tawi.
As the biggest ministry in the BARMM with more or less 66,000 teaching and non-teaching personnel, the MBHTE has more than 22,000 teaching personnel.
Iqbal has time and again enunciated that as part of the BARMM education reform, “No Bangsamoro learner shall be left behind”.
The Bangsamoro education chief had also said in the past that as long as he is the MBHTE minister, he’ll continue hiring qualified teaching and non-teaching personnel. — EDD K. USMAN (✓)