Tawi-Tawi sponsors teachers’ review fees

By Nonoy Lacson

BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi – The provincial government of Tawi-Tawi in tandem with the province’s lone congressional district allotted some P4.2 million to shoulder the cost of review sessions for about 2,000 local applicants for the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) examinations to be held on September 29.

Tawi-Tawi Lone District Representative Ruby Sahali said she allotted P2.2 million, which she have drawn from her Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), while the provincial government contributed P2 million for the review cost for the 2,000 LET examinees from the province.

Sahali said the LET examinees started their review classes last July 20, which will end on September 21, a week before the scheduled LET examination in this capital town.

She said the review sessions are being held twice a week – during Saturdays and Sundays – at the Sandbar Lepa Convention Center here, with lecturers coming from various respected review centers in Manila.

“We want to make sure that many of our applicants for teachers will pass the LET examination this year, which is why we have sponsored the cost of their review that includes review books, meals, hotel accommodations, and review fees for the lecturers,” that lady lawmaker explained.

For his part, Tawi-Tawi Governor Nurbert Sahali said the provincial government is assisting the examinees to help the teachers acquire the necessary eligibility, a qualification to teach in the elementary level.

“The provincial government would like to provide quality education for our children, and this can only be achieved if we have good quality teachers teaching the young one’s of today,” the governor said.

This is one of the reasons why we have to hire the services of good lecturers, with some of them authors of LET review books to serve as reviewers for the 2,000 LET applicants, Governor Sahali explained.

The top officials of the province said they hope to have a good number of LET passers in this year’s LET examination, as they vowed to continue the program yearly for the province to have quality teachers.

Both Tawi-Tawi officials said they are also planning to sponsor the review cost for the other national 

examinations to be conducted in the province. (Manila Bulletin,  August 14, 2013)