![]() AN audit into the tuition fee free (TFF) funds by the Government has found that of the K4 billion disbursed, K330 million was not paid for unknown reasons. Speaking during the launching of the TFF performance audit report by the Auditor General’s Office in Port Moresby on Friday, assistant auditor-general Puva Heako in his overview remark, said: “K4.27 billion was appropriated from 2012 to 2018. “Out of that, K3.365 billion was given to all schools – that’s the exact funding given to all schools but they held back some money for the teaching and learning materials so K305.6 million was held back by the Education Department for the purpose of accommodating teaching and learning materials. “When you put in total context, K330 million remains outstanding.
“In other words, that funding was never given.” Heako said the policy allowed more students to go to school but infrastructure could cater for all the students. “The object is to see the trend,” he said. “When it started, what challenges came in and how they’re overcome, and if they have not overcome them, what’s the reason for it happening in the way it is not intended? “The performance audit doesn’t cover one year, it’s duration of a year so the TFF education policy is from 2012- 2018. “Every audit is different because we go by objective and criteria.” Heaki, who was in charge of the audit team, thanked his staff for the getting the job done before the next parliament sitting in August. According to Auditor-General Gordon Kega, the report was presented to Parliament on March 23. He said other reports presented earlier were also waiting to be tabled by the speaker. “The current one, which is launched, is the TFF,” he said. “The other one is the Gazelle services improvement programme part four 2019 audit report and then Apec report.” Kega said the part four audit report was presented to parliament last year and the performance audit report of 2007-2015 for the public service improvement service for Gazelle was completed and presented to parliament in February. The National / PNG Education News Next : National School Of Excellence – Passam Receives 40 Desktop Computers To Improve Learning In ICT Comments are closed.
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