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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) is actively working on formulating Policy Guidelines for the Implementation of Public Madrasah, involving comprehensive Stakeholders’ Consultation.
These workshops and consultations are vital for developing a policy and procedure manual aimed at ensuring consistent decision-making, legal compliance, improved employee performance and accountability, enhanced communication and transparency, and risk and conflict mitigation.
Ustadhz Tahir Gandawali Nalg is head of the MBHTE Directorate General for Madaris Education. He led the consultation, one of a series to come in the future.
Recent workshops covered topics such as Hiring, Recruitment, Management Structure, and Finance. Additionally, a write shop focused on standardizing the curriculum, teaching methodologies, and textbooks for Public Madrasahs has been successfully conducted.
Several activities are also scheduled as follows:
a.) Write shop on the Policy of Public Madrasah on the Standard of conducting Quality Assurance and stakeholders’ participation.
b.) Workshop on Policy for Public Madrasah on Establishing the System in Teaching, Learning, and the Management for school year 2024-2025.
c.) Stakeholders’ Consultations on Public Madrasah for Mainland Division
d.) Stakeholders’ Consultations on Public Madrasah for Island Division
Following these activities, the Ministry will finalize the policy, incorporating feedback from stakeholders. This will be followed by an orientation session on the Public Madrasah Policy and Guidelines. Additionally, thorough preparations for the 2024-2025 school year will be undertaken to ensure a smooth and effective implementation of the new policies.
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), 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. (✓)