THE Papua New Guinea International Education Agency (IEA), which owns and operates 18 schools and technical and further education (Tafe) colleges, last year had its teachers and staff undergo child protection training.
The IEA subscribed to a one-year safeguarding and duty of care package for international schools EduCare. EduCare is a partner of the Council of British International Schools. This suite offers 85 hours of online accredited learning and enabled all IEA staff to keep up-to-date with the latest training in four key areas – safeguarding, well-being, compliance and health and safety. THE auto-suspension of teachers in the country did not affect any teacher in Jiwaka, an official says.
Jiwaka education adviser Dr Charly Muke told The National that all the teachers’ resumption forms were filled and sent to Port Moresby in time. He said it was one of the achievements of the provincial education board. Dr Muke said most of the time people only talked about negative aspects and not acknowledge good things that happen. THE Dregerhafen Secondary School is unable to carry on with its infrastructure development following a cut in the Government tuition fee subsidy, chairman Bussim Stoessel says.
“The development, implemented by the late Sir Jerry Kasip Nalau, is thus stalled,” he said. Stoessel, who took over from the late Sir Jerry in 2017 as school board chairman, told The National that the troubling financial hard times and other problems had stalled all development plans for the school. He said the school had produced leaders such as the late Sir Jerry and late Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare. The University of South Pacific Students Association (USPSA) has joined the Pacific Islands Forum members to farewell Madam Dame Meg Taylor.
The USPSA released a statement acknowledging and commending her leadership in the Pacific. The student association released the following statement. BEST-performing teachers will be rewarded at the end of each year to acknowledge their work and encourage others to perform well, Education Minister Jimmy Uguro says. Uguro said it was an initiative taken by his ministry to boost teachers’ performance. “In order for us to maintain standards and create excitement in the classroom and students’ learning, we should, somehow, reward our teachers,” he said. EDUCATION inspectors nationwide have received a total funding of K10 million to complete their work, Education Minister Jimmy Uguro says. “The funding is for their travel, accommodation and other expenses to conduct teacher and school inspections,” Uguro said. “Previously, they were given more than K10 million, but because of our country’s situation, K10 million is sufficient. “So our inspectors have no excuse but with whatever little they get, they do their job to inspect teachers and schools to maintain our education standard.” According to a statement by the Australian High Commission, over the past 60 years, more than 12,000 Papua New Guineans have been awarded Australian Government scholarships under the flagship Australia Awards program. Australian scholarship alumni have played a vital role in PNG’s development. Three eminent alumni shared their experiences during an ethical leadership session with the latest cohort of Australia Awards graduates. By Albertis Photography During the UPNG Ialibu-Pangia Students Orientation at Tuna Bay in Port Moresby, Tonny Kondo (an elite of Ialibu-Pangia) was invited as a guest speaker with other elites of the district. While taking the stage, Mr Kondo committed K5,000 cash to the UPNG Ialibu-Pangia Students Association. Kondo went on to encourage the students with his life experiences as a village boy going to school and the challenges he faced while pursuing his studies at UPNG. My name is Tonny Kondo from central Ialibu in SHP. I grew up in a very remote village and as a village kid I didn't know anything about the function of the modern world in terms of education. My village was quite far from school so for 12 years of being in school (Primary up to Secondary) I had to walk one hour, thirty minutes to reach the school, every morning, every afternoon, life was really tough for me in terms of the distance. At that time, I didn't know the core importance of education, meaning to say that, after completing my education, I would become this and that. I had only a little knowledge about it . A COURT has rejected an application by Fr Jan Czuba to stay a Cabinet decision to suspend him as secretary of the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology. Deputy Chief Justice Ambeng Kandakasi rejected Fr Jan’s urgent application in the National Court to stay the decision and to restrain the State from taking any disciplinary action against him, intimidate or harass him, pending the ruling on his application for a judicial review of his suspension. Police charged Fr Jan with one count of official corruption and nine counts of abuse of office on Dec 18, 2020. By Bonny Kaiyo Eastern Highlands Students Association at University of Papua New Guinea welcomed Opposition Leader and Vanimo Green River MP Belden Namah to the campus this afternoon. He was here, mingling easily with the country's future leadership, to address them on issues of concern to them, including pressing national issues that had bearing on their future professional life. Namah reiterated his position on the huge challenge facing the Marape/Basil regime. The major premise was one in which the government failed to adequately deal with the obstacles, and therefore the need to make PNG the richest, Christian, black nation on earth. It is going around in circles. |
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