The ISIS just concluded its 3rd Policy Conference held on July 5-7, 2008 at the De Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de oro City.
Among the major issues discussed was the plan to open a College. This is an old plan, a part of a ladderized scheme when the school opened in 1995, but put on hold due to some more pressing problems the school had to face. The school opened with less than a hundred kindergarten and Grade 1 pupils with one grade level added each year until it paused after it graduated its first batch of high school students some three years ago. And from less than a hundred pupils in 1995, it has now 3,600 pupils.
The plan to open a college had been delayed due to some technical problems which need resolving such as how to continue with its unique feature of integrating the Arabic/Islamic madrasah system with that of the Philippine educational system. While this was effectively shown to be possible in the elementary and high school level by ISIS itself, there will certainly be problems in a college setting and need to be worked out first. It seems the ISIS Board of Trustees must have finally come up with a workable plan. Based on what was so far agreed among the BOT members, working on the plan should immediately start and the target date of opening was tentatively set in June, AY 2009-2010.
Present in the Conference were top officials of both the the Markazzuz Sabab and the Ranao Council, most of whom are also members of the Board of Trustees of the ISIS, the school being a joint venture.
....Isn't it a good idea??
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