Despite students scoring exceptionally well in their grade point average (GPA) to enter universities, there are also other factors and quality requirements that make their chances slimmer.
And these are factors beyond universities’ control, University of Papua New Guinea pro vice-chancellor planning and development Vincent Malaibe says. “The parents are concerned about one purpose, and that is they are looking for space for their children to come to university to study, get a degree and get a job,” Malaibe told The National last week. “But the universities are concerned with much more, currently, the Department of Higher Education Research Science and Technology required quality assurance framework of 13 international standards which the universities must meet. “They (universities) are charged with the responsibility to develop critical thinking and research and we have to meet international standards. “On a scale of four (4), the minimum GPA for entry into many UPNG course and programmes is 2.5, however, entry and selection on this is basically according to space limitations. The University of Papua New Guinea wants to take in as many students as it would like to, even though you would find that many students meet the minimum entry requirement (2.5 GPA) but physical limitation on space, staffing, finance, dormitory space, that makes the university limit the number.” Another factor in this vigorous selection process is the score the student gets out of the total in a particular subject that is of most significance to the programme applied. “GPA is not the sole assessment criteria.” You may have a GPA of 3 and 3.5, and that person (who has written letter to the editor yesterday in The National) has calculated the GPA but he has forgotten one thing, that the courses also matter.” He said if students have ties in their GPA then the selectors look at their scores out of total and select whoever scores the highest. The other factor is the first choice that the students have made. “We have quota insert capacities. We would like to get many students as we can but we can’t,” vice chancellor Prof Albert Mellam said. The university heads explained that all universities did their selection on students’ first choices.
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