ACTING education secretary Dr Uke Kombra wants the school drop-out culture phased out.
Kombra told a senior education officers conference in Lae that 57 percent of Grade Eight students failed to progress to Grade Nine and 49 per cent of Grade 10 students did not make it to Grade 11. “We have a challenge to make sure that every child goes on from Grade Eight to Grade Nine and from Grade 10 to Grade 11,” Kombra said. “There is no way in the world where you hear the word dropout – only here in PNG. “We have to look at ways at how we can eliminate this concept of dropouts.” Education Minister Nick Kuman told the conference that 65 per cent of dropouts from primary and secondary ended up living in the streets urban centres because of the poor or limited capacities of schools. He said there were about two million students attending schools under the tuition fee free policy managed by more than 48,000 teachers. The National
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