TO cater for the growing student population in East New Britain, additional secondary and high schools will open this year, an official says.
Provincial education board chairman and administrator Wilson Matava said he was happy with education-impact projects achieved last year to address rising student population. He said new developments were the registration of three new high schools including Bitapaka Secondary School, in Kokopo district; Boisen High School, in Rabaul district; and Tol High School, in Pomio district. Warangoi High School (Pomio)and George Brown High School (Gazelle) will take in their first batch of grade 11 students this year after becoming secondary schools. Matava said the establishment of these schools would enable last year’s grade 10 leavers access to secondary education. He said the all-boys’ St Mary’s Vuvu Secondary School would enrol its first intake of girls into grades 9 and 11 this year. The girls’ classes would be taught by nuns and by 2019 all classes will be a mixture of boys and girls. He said another initiative that would prepare grade 12 school leavers that could not make it to higher institutions was the ENB Open University which has been supported under this year’s provincial budget. A recent provincial cabinet meeting also endorsed the provincial education plan 2015–2019 that features early childhood learning as a foundation for progressive academic excellence. Another initiative was the development of a tourism curriculum to be taught in technical and vocational education and training schools. The National
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