Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 7849)
The Buguias-Loo Agro-Industrial School in the Municipality of Buguias, Province of Benguet, is converted into a polytechnic college.
It is renamed the Buguias-Loo Polytechnic College.
The College is mandated to offer academic and vocational curricula, baccalaureate degrees in arts and sciences, engineering, humanities, commerce, education, literature, and philosophy, and promote scientific and technological researches.
The incumbent school administrator of the Buguias-Loo Agro-Industrial School shall be the first superintendent of the College.
Teachers, instructors, and other personnel shall be absorbed into new upgraded positions based on the College’s needs and shall receive compensation and privileges equal to their counterparts in existing polytechnic colleges supervised by the Commission on Higher Education.
The amount necessary shall be charged against the current year's appropriation of the Buguias-Loo Agro-Industrial School.
These shall constitute special trust funds deposited in authorized government depository banks, with the interests accrued forming part of the same funds for the College’s use.
For professional growth, development, health, welfare activities, and expenses necessary to attain the College's purposes under the Act.
It took effect upon its approval on December 30, 1994.