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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) continued its distribution of MBHTE-designed school chairs, this time to the Schools Division Office (SDO) of Maguindanao del Sur, supporting the Ministry’s efforts to improve learning spaces and provide students with better classroom resources.
Headed by Education Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal, the education institution of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has been implementing reform-oriented measures in the Bangsamoro region’s education sector to raise the quality of learning.
The recipient schools:
— Manindolo National High School (MNHS)
— Bulod National High School (BNHS)
— Mangudadatu National High School (MNHS)
— Katong Madidis National High School (KMNHS)
— Datu Abdula M. Camino Memorial National High School (DAMCMNHS)
— Talayan National High School (TNHS)
Thousands of school chairs are expected to be distributed in the coming days.
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, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages — now eight new municipalities — that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: 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. (✓)