Home | ALTEC Launch: Speaker #5 Dir Marilette Almayda, Director, Bureau of Alternative Education

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My warm greetings of a very pleasant day to one and all. First, allow me to greet Ateneo de Zamboanga University on the occasion of your 110th year anniversary. Congratulations for having reached this far being of service to the community where Ateneo de Zamboanga University is located. We would also like to express our warmest and highest felicitations to the leadership of Ateneo de Zamboanga University for this very cordial invitation for the Department of Education Bureau of the Alternative Education to be part of this very significant undertaking. Indeed, we share with you your triumphs.

We are very happy that, alongside the Department of Education’s thrust for excellence as part of teacher training and capability-building for our teachers and making sure that our officials in the Department of Education involved in Alternative Learning System, will be given the right assistance and support from higher education institutions, so that we will be able to serve, better our clients in Alternative Learning System, particularly those who are out-of-school youth children and adults.

We share your joys as well, our staunch partner, particularly in our quest for quality and service for our Alternative Learning System clients. We are happy to take part in the projects that we have shared, especially AdZU-SUGPAT, and of course, some other worthwhile undertakings that we have taken part of. In behalf of our very own Assistant Secretary GH S. Ambat, and the Bureau of Alternative Education Family here in central office, allow me to extend my warmest greetings of congratulations to Ateneo de Zamboanga University, and at the same time manifest our strong and continued support to all your undertakings. We are very happy and we look forward to partnership with you, especially with the launch of Ateneo Learning and Teaching Excellence Center, wherein we can be assured that our ALS teachers in Zamboanga Peninsula and in BARMM will be benefiting from.

We also would like to manifest our interest and our commitment for this continued support in order to sustain and maintain the momentum that we have started with our partnership with AdZU regarding service delivery for Alternative Learning System. We deeply commit our dear colleagues and partners that we will continue to raise the bar of excellence for Alternative Learning System through yet another level, and we thank you for this partnership.

Once again, my warmest greetings of congratulations, and this manifestation of support for all the undertakings knowing that eventually will benefit all the more with this continued and strengthened partnership with you. Good Day to one and all at mabuhay po ang Alternative Learning System.