![]() Over 600 teachers from around the country have convened to Port Moresby to mark the Grade 12 Examination papers for this year 2021. The Measurement Services Division through the Department of Education is hosting the teachers in hotels in the city and the marking of examination papers is expected to be completed in two weeks. The teachers are marking the examinations scripts for over 27 000 students who sat for the Grade 12 Examination this year. ![]() TEACHERS of hearing-impaired students have no choice but to break the Coronavirus (Covid-19) rule of compulsory masking during contact hours, an official says. Siwi Pope, a senior inclusive education officer with the Morobe Inclusive education resource centre, said this one rule rendered their method of teaching impossible. “Apart from sign language, our students depend on lip-reading, facial expressions, body movement and other visual cues to translate the information communicated,” he said. THE University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji has been ranked in the 501-600 category in social sciences in the 2022 times higher education world university rankings.
The table for social sciences included 870 universities, up from 791 last year. It highlighted the universities leading in the disciplines of communication and media studies, politics and international studies (including development studies), sociology and geography. GRADE eight students at St Mary’s Primary School in Lae were farewelled with a luncheon that also doubled as an assessment for them on Friday.
Acting deputy head teacher Tessie Woni said the luncheon was in two parts – the first to give the students their academic marks and secondly to farewell them. She said one of the topics in the units in basic technology was to cook for a special occasion and she integrated cooking for a special occasion with a farewell luncheon. A SCHOOL principal says Grade 12 students need to be sent off in their final year with some sort of ceremony.
Gordon Secondary School principal George Wek Kenega said they held a recognition ceremony after the Grade 12 exam on Friday. The recognition ceremony strictly observed Coronavirus (Covid-19) protocols. “It’s not good to send them out of the gate as soon as they finished their exams,” he said. THE Southern Highlands government paid K4 million last week to schools in the province for the parent component of tuition fees.
Governor William Powi said it was for the second half of the year from the K10 million allocated in their 2021 Budget from primary schools up to tertiary institutions. A HEAD teacher is encouraging schools in Lae, Morobe, to make their own arrangements in getting curriculum materials from Port Moresby to their schools.
Omili Primary School head teacher Mark Nanu said schools should not wait for the Government to do everything for them. Nanu said the school, with 2,765 students, eight class streams and around 55 in each class, had been struggling with curriculum resources. ![]() Over 32,000 Grade-12 students across Papua New Guinea are sitting for the National Examinations, amidst the current spike in the COVID-19 cases. The students are sitting Advanced Maths Paper 1, General Maths Paper 1 in session one this morning, Applied Science and History in session two. The week-long exam will see Physics, Accounting and Geography tomorrow - Tuesday 19th October, and Economic, Biology, Geology and Business Studies on Wednesday. GULF Governor Chris Haiveta has confirmed the presence of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Delta variant in his province.
He said two teachers had contracted the Covid-19. “One of them teaches at a school in Kerema town and the other teaches in a school in Kikori (West Kerema),” he said. Haiveta, who described the confirmed cases as a breakout, said yesterday the cases were reported in Kerema and villages in east and west Kerema. EDUCATION officials and head teachers in Morobe have unanimously agreed not to host school graduations this year.
Morobe education programme adviser Keith Tangui said the decision was a control measure against Coronavirus (Covid-19) currently spreading quickly through the province. “Graduations attract people and we all know that’s how the disease surged in Goroka,” he said. “So there will be no school graduations for primary, secondary, national highs and technical and vocational education and training schools in Morobe. |
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