Featured image above is the new building of Rumidas Primary School (RES) worth Php4.41 million funded and built by MBHTE in Buldon, Maguindanao del Norte.
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COTABATO CITY (SDN) — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) under the leadership of Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal continued to fulfill its mission of introducing reforms in education in the Bangsamoro region.
MBHTE is one of the 15 primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The BARMM education ministry is headed by Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal.
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.
As this developed, the MBHTE conducted a turnover ceremony last August 8, 2024, to officially inaugurate the newly constructed one-storey with two-classroom school building at Rumidas Primary School in the Municipality of Buldon, Maguindanao del Norte, Schools Division Office.
Costing Php4,417,815.72, the project was funded under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 General Appropriations Act of the Bangsamoro.
The project underscores the Ministry’s commitment to improving educational infrastructure in the underserved areas, ensuring that students in rural communities have access to better resources.
Meanwhile, the MBHTE as part of the Improve Quality Education in the Bangsamoro Land (IQBAL), the Ministry’s Property and Supply Section (PSS) held last August 9 another delivery and distribution of MBHTE-designed armchairs to the following schools in Cotabato City Division:
1. Vilo Central Elementary School
2. J. MarQuez Elementary School
3. Rojas Central Elementary School
4. Notre Dame Village Central Elementary School
5. Notre Dame Village National High School
6. CCNHS ANNEX LR. Sebastian Site
7. Canizares NHS School of Arts and Trades
The MBHTE has also been delivering and distributing millions pesos worth of IT equipment, Teachers’ Kits, Learners’ Kits, equipment, devices, and tools for classrooms, as well as school-focused supplies, constructing new school buildings in various BARMM communities, refurbishing old classrooms, among many other reforms. (✓)