![]() By Secretary of DHERST Dr. Francis Hualupmomi, Ph.D A snapshot of 2022 National Online Selection for Grade 12 School leavers who have applied for a space in tertiary institutions. The results are digitally generated within less then 5 seconds. In 2022, 27, 902 Grade 12 students applied online for 249 programmes in 62 registered tertiary institutions in PNG. Note that institutions set their own criteria in the system. From the total applicants, 11, 125 have been successfully selected. These students have met the criteria. 16, 777 students who didn't meet the criteria are placed in the Admission Pool. From the admission pool, only 8, 335 studnts who are qualified will be selected by institutions to fill up the quota or spaces of 19, 460 available at the institutions. Interestingly, we have observed a positive growth in Acces to higher education. First, there has been an increase in spaces available for students in 2023. This is because the Department has established five new institutions (increase from 57 in 2021 to 62 in 2022) and programmes (increase from 237 in 2021 to 249 in 2022) have increased thus creating a total of 19, 460 spaces.
Second, we still have 8, 335 spaces available because only 11, 125 students were selected. This is a positive outcome. Third, if we continue the same trend of either establishing new institutions or increasing the programmes at existing institutions we would have created more spaces and more students would enter higher learning institutions. Fourth, only 8, 442 students will completely miss out from the admission pool because they may have low GPA. These students are encouraged to upgrade their Grades at FODE and apply in 2023. Finally, despite male dominating the 2022 National Online application there has been an increase of 6% in female applications. The gender gap is between 40-50 %. We will soon close the gap. Finally, there are some issues students and parents raised regarding GPA qualified students missing out in selection. There at least five factors why students are not selected. First, GPA is not the only criteria used to select students. Second, Criteria set by institutions may affect students. Third, course combination undertaken at Grade 12. Fourth, course requirements set as a criteria by the institutions. Fifth, quota set by the institutions. A good example of why a high GPA student may miss out of selection can occur in this situation. If UPNG law school set the criteria as only first choice, the online system will only select students who put law as their first choice and not second choice. Another good example could be Machinical Engineering in UoT. If UoT set its criteria as A in Advance Mathematics, the online system will only select students with A in Advance Mathematics not with B grade. Another common example is that quota set by the institutions can affect selection. Only top GPA scoring students get selected based on ranking of GPA. Competition will push students out of selection. Generally, results are positive. Also read : Comments are closed.
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