THERE is a screening process graduate teachers must pass before they are admitted by the Teaching Service Commission, chairman Baran Sori says.
Sori said the screening process is to ensure delivery of quality education. Graduates must have the average grade and above in their grade 12 certificates. “We want appropriately qualified and trained teachers to do that, to build and help students develop their level of intelligence and this is the area the employer is concern about,” Sori said. His comments follows calls by the PNG Teachers Association to the government to have all the 2017 new graduates to be put on payroll “PNGTA is aware that the new graduates admitted by the teaching service commission have not been on payroll,” General Secretary Ugwailubu Mowana said. However, Sori said only some of the 2017 new graduates were not paid “Not all, it depends on the registration, if they are registered then they should come on payroll,” he said. “Registration is issued by the secretary of the education not the decision of the teaching service commission. “After teachers are registered then the Teaching Service Commission automatically allows them into the membership of the teaching service commission and this is when they are placed on payroll,” he told The National. Then atioinal
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Carol Abiri
1/16/2018 09:23:36 pm
The country needs teachers. More proactive measures needed. Suggestion. Give new pre service student teachers diagnostic test to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Then instruct all pre service teachers college to run compulsory enrichment courses in their first semester.Better to help them this way then to do that at the end
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