![]() Reports from the three-day national conference on alcohol and drug abuse by Jesher Tilto, Joy Olali and Antoinette Poivi PASTORS and counsellors must be appointed in PNG Government schools to help reduce alcohol and drug abuses, Higher Education Research Science and Technology Department secretary Prof Fr Jan Czuba says. “The anti-socio-economic issue cannot be reduced or resolved unless there is a holistic approach to guide students to reject the abuses,” he added. A LACK of resources and funds is hindering the growth of National Higher and Technical Education, its board chairman Dr Philip Kereme says.
“We hope to resolve funding issues and fund education institutions adequately,” he added. “We will look at the resources that we have within the system and see how best we can mobilise the resources to fund education, research, science and technology. “There are many areas that need proper addressing but for now, we will focus on resource mobilisation,” he said. TEACHER Bonita Amepou believes that early childhood education and development is important.
And if everyone can contribute to raising basic literacy standards in the communities through sustainable community early childhood programmes, then children could be prepared for effective learning in primary schools. Amepou, 40, from Mekeo in Central and Tanggu in Bogia, Madang, is a single parent to her three children. Her eldest daughter is a person with disability, her second son is studying at Don Bosco Technical School in Chimbu and her youngest is in grade eight at Holy Spirit Primary in Madang. “My family has a generation of educators,” she said. SIX Papua New Guineans have been granted the Monbukagakusho scholarships to do their post graduate and specialised training studies in Japanese universities and colleges this year.
The programme is granted under the government of Japan through its Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEXT). Japanese ambassador Nobuyuki Watanabe during a send-off reception encouraged the students to make full use of this opportunity to experience Japan. Watanabe told them to interact with the people and to get to know their culture. ![]() Dahlia was named after her mother’s favorite flower, the Dahlia. Her mother grows Dahlias every year to decorate their Church each Sunday. Her mother’s hard work and joy in service has always inspired Dahlia. Dahlia grew up in a Christian home and feels God placed the dream of becoming a missionary pilot in her heart at six years of age. When she was 16years old, Dahlia went to a Youth Convention. When the pastor preached about getting to know the Lord as her personal Lord and Savior, she gave her life to Christ. She then understood what it meant to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior, and to have that intimate relationship with Jesus. ![]() PNG PRIME Minister James Marape has commended student leaders of the country’s tertiary institutions for organizing a forum that saw him and the Opposition Leader come together to discuss issues of national importance. The Prime Minister said students have shown a high level of maturity in allowing for a “first of its kind discussion” that he wants to see continue into the future. “I appreciate their maturity for setting standards on how universities, as institutions of higher learning and intellectual discourse, can take leadership rationally and responsibly while allowing for debate on national issues to take place,” said PM Marape. “This forum was well organized; the students were mature and well behaved. AROUND 31 per cent of the popular have never been to school and are classified illiterate, while 69 have received some form of education in elementary, primary and secondary school or tertiary institutions.
This is according to the 2011 data from the National Statistics Office. And because of the high rate of unemployment in the country, the Credit Corporation through its partnership with Yumi Project Inc came up with an initiative to prepare young people for job-seeking. Credit Corporation chief executive officer Danny Robinson said the target was young people who had completed Grade 12 and had furthered their study, or were staying at home while looking for jobs. “Through Project Wok, (we) prepare over 450 Grade 12 students from secondary schools around Port Moresby with the ability needed to help make their transition from school into the workforce,” he said. PAULIUS Nasupi received an electrical engineering national certificate (NC3) during the Port Moresby Technical College graduation last Tuesday — and was immediately offered a job.
Nasupi was the first to give the correct answer to a question posed by chief guest, Remington Technology chief executive officer Peter Goodwin to more than 1,000 graduating students . The question asked by Goodwin was: ”What year was the company established in Papua New Guinea?” To which, Nasupi then called out “1948”. “I have a friend who is working with Remington Technology whom at one time during our conversation had given a brief background about the company he was working for (Remington),” he said. “From that conversation I learned that Remington was established in 1948 in the country.” ![]() PNG HIGHER Education Minister Don Polye says he has a plan to introduce online learning in the higher education sector to optimise learning opportunities for the country’s tertiary level students. Polye, who is also Sports Minister, said this during Port Moresby Technical College’s 59th graduation ceremony yesterday. “This will enhance both the students and teachers’ learning and professional careers and would help them understand the world of growing technology,” he said. Polye said that they would make technology easily accessible and user friendly on campuses nationwide.. ![]() By Edward Maia | FM100 The Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance has signed an MoU with Dauli Teachers Collage of Higher education to roll out its Public Service Training at the subnational level to public servants, teachers and those wishing to take up public service roll with the government. Stationed in Hela, the agreement will see the roll out of training and teaching lesions incorporated within the collages curriculum to train and teach teachers at the collage and interested individuals in the sub national level to become government officials and public servants. PILAG’s CEO Michael Barobe said this agreement will see PILAGs service reaching people in remote parts of PNG. “The significant of this partnership is simply to roll out the training programs that we have here in PILAG. It is part of reaching the districts and provinces at the sub national level so that we could be able to train public servants to become good government officers” Barobe said. |
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