600 aspiring teachers take licensure exam in Sulu

SULU – Nearly 600 aspiring teachers have taken the board licensure examination in Maimbung town after months of waiting and rigorous review in Sulu province.

 

The Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers  held in Sulu's Maimbung town. (Office of the Vice Governor Toto Tan)

The examination was conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in coordination with the provincial and municipal governments. 

Maimbung Mayor Shihla Hayudini thanked the PRC for allowing aspiring teachers to take the Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (BLEPT) in Sulu. 

Those who had taken the BLEPT were the first batch of some 3,500 aspiring teachers. The second batch is set to take place in January next year and the third and last batches in March and June, respectively, in compliance with directives of the national government’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the conduct of professional examinations. 

This was previously announced by Jorge Duterte, who is in-charge of the Regional Licensure Examination, after a meeting with Tan in July. The BLEPT was originally scheduled in March last year, but had been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Tan also thanked the PRC for holding the BLEPT again in Sulu and urged aspiring teachers to prepare themselves for the rigorous examination. It was Tan who sought the holding of professional examinations in the province - since 2008 - in an effort to lessen the burden and expenses of the examinees in going to Zamboanga City just to take the PRC examinations. 

He also funded the review of the examinees, hiring top caliber and professional educators from Manila; and many times in the past even provided allowances when they go to Zamboanga for the BLEPT.  

Now, police and military recruitment and examinations are also being held in the province because of Tan, who repeatedly vowed to uplift the welfare of the Tausugs and those who want to pursue their dreams to become professional in the career they chose to pursue. (Mindanao Examiner)