DEVELOPING a child at an early age is important for nation building, says Education Minster Jimmy Uguro. Uguro said this on Friday during the launching of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in Port Moresby. He said in order to help develop a child, a teacher should know the child and impart the right knowledge to the child. Uguro thanked the Government, former education ministers and other stakeholders for their support. Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra said this was the first time that ECE was recognised by the government. A SECONDARY school in Lae will be getting a K1 million facelift under the Digicel PNG Foundation’s whole school sustainability programme, an official says.
Busu Secondary School principal George Nobel said the school entered into an agreement with the foundation last December to undertake six projects under foundation’s school programme. The projects include an eight-in-one classroom equipped with chairs and tables, a female ablution block, solar generator for backup power, a bore water well, two water tanks and the general beautification of the school. ELEMENTARY school teachers in the country will have to undergo diploma or appropriate training if they want to continue teaching grade 1 and 2 classes in primary schools, says Education Minister Jimmy Uguro.
Uguro told The National that the elementary programme would be phased out completely. Some elementary school teachers have raised concerns saying that the phrasing out to the elementary programme would affect teachers’ employment, but Uguro said teachers will remain. POLICE in Lae have condemned the shooting of two students allegedly by officers of a security firm in Lae, saying “police work should be left to police”. The two students were admitted at the Angau Memorial Hospital on Sunday with gunshot wounds. Met Supt Chief Insp Chris Kunyanban said it was the second time that officers from the same security firm had been involved in actions which endangered the lives of the public. CHIEF Justice Sir Gibbs Salika has ordered a cabinet minister not to interfere with the administration of the University of Goroka (UOG). The order was handed down in the National Court in Waigani on Friday following an application by the university council to stay the gazettal notices issued by the Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology Wesley Raminai, who had appointed an interim university council and an acting vice-chancellor. Raminai had appointed a new university council with Dr Teng Waninga as the acting Vice-Chancellor to replace Professor Musawe Sinabare. Sir Gibbs also ordered the current university council headed by Chancellor Joseph Sukwianomb and the UOG administration headed by Vice-Chancellor Sinebare to continue to perform their duties and responsibilities to ensure the university’s academic programme continued to function smoothly. A SECONDARY school teacher was charged in the Wewak District Court with bashing to death a 19-year-old grade 7 student whom he suspected was having an affair with his wife, East Sepik commander Supt Albert Beli says. “The 26-year-old teacher is now in custody for allegedly using a piece of wood to kill the student from Turubu local level government’s Kep village in Wewak,” he said. Supt Beli said the teacher was suspicious of the student and he allegedly got drunk on April 10 at about 3.30pm and hit the student on the head multiple times with the piece of wood. THE Papua New Guinea Government has awarded a K17.5 million contract to a nationally owned contractor to build a new mess for the PNG University of Technology in Lae, Morobe.
Regional Engineering and Construction (REC) signed the contract at Government House in Port Moresby yesterday. CLASSES at the Jiwaka Teachers’ College have been suspended by its board to iron out outstanding issues, including its registration, to prepare for a fresh start next year, college initiator Paul Siwi says.
He said among the issues were the registration process and development at the college. Siwi said a memorandum of agreement between the college and the Evangelical Alliance PNG Church in 2016 was terminated because some commitments such as proper guidance towards the college registration, management and infrastructure developments were not honoured. THE 10,000 teachers who have not been paid should expect money in their bank accounts in the next fortnightly pay, says Education Minister Jimmy Uguro.
The 10,000 teachers had to be suspended from the Education Department payroll because their resumption-of-duty forms had not been received. The forms are normally sent to the payroll section through the provincial education office at the start of each school year. “Out of the 65,000 teachers around the country, only 10,000 are on auto-suspension. We are addressing this to ensure all teachers are on payroll by next pay at least,” Uguro said. The auto suspension of teachers from the Alesco payroll system may affect over nine (9) thousand teachers when the system takes effect today.
Chairman of the Teaching Service Commission Samson Wangihomie told NBC News, the number of teachers could have been higher. A directive by Education Minister Jimmy Uguro to have Teacher Resumption duty sheets collected from the provinces and brought to Waigani has seen this reduction with more to come. |
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