Over 3K scholars in Bangsamoro region finish tech-voc courses

More than 3,000 scholars in the Bangsamoro region will soon become competent skilled workers after they completed courses of technical vocational education, the regional government said Tuesday.

Specifically, 3,453 scholars completed courses of the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education – Technical Education and Skills Development (MBHTE-TESD) Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the first quarter of 2021.

“It will open more doors for our Bangsamoro learners to hone their skills and knowledge,” Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal said in a statement from Bangsamoro Information Office.

Scholarship beneficiaries who are from disadvantaged sectors finished “skills training, entrepreneurship training, values transformation training, and National Competency Assessment.”

The beneficiaries also received a Training Support Fund from the program.

Currently, the regional government’s funded scholarship program listed 1,410 graduates and 2,006 enrollees from its TVET qualifications and programs.

Meanwhile, TESD scholarship programs including Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA), Skills Training for Employment Program (STEP), Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP), and Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (UAQTEA) will still support the Bangsamoro constituents.

This program was able to produce 2,043 graduates from 3,945 enrollees for the first quarter of 2021.

The provincial government also said its MBHTE program will ensure skills training in the region through BARMM and nationally-funded scholarship programs in the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, including the special geographic area of North Cotabato.—Consuelo Marquez/LDF, GMA News