THE Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is confident that the Project for Enhancing Quality in Teaching through TV (EQUITV) programme can be run by the National Education Department.
Chief representative Shigeru Sugiayama said the EQUITV prgramme had improved the quality of classroom teaching in project schools through regular TV transmission of mathematics and science lessons. However he said the lessons based on Papua New Guinea’s curriculum reform syllabus would wind down at the end of this year. “It doesn’t necessary to mean that we are leaving but will step aside, the most important thing is that the programme is successful and we are confident this programme has reached schools nationwide,” Sugiayama said. He said JICA was content by the direction of the Department of Education. “We want to start in a new area that is probably the curriculum development,” he said. Education Secretary Dr Michael Tapo said the inconsistency of the EQUITV programme was due to funding and the department is working to getting it right. “E-learning now is the government policy and the Government will support as you say,” Tapo said. “EQUITV now is our business 2016 onwards and the department will support EQUITV as part of e-learning. Tapo said: “Therefore we will take ownership on it and run it. “Funding of EQUITV and the programmes is part and parcel of the e-learning. “So it’s going to be in the PNG Government current cost and therefore JICA will move forward to the next phase in terms of the development of the mathematics and science curricula.”
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