THE Education Department needs K216 million to fund the tuition-fee-free programme next year, says Minister Jimmy Uguro. He said Prime Minister James Marape had assured him and Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra that Treasury would look for the money and make it available before schools resume in 2021. “The prime minister has assured us that they will find money in the Treasury department to top up the amount and pay,” Uguro said. He however warned parents and guardians that they would be paying 37 percent of the fees for elementary to secondary school students under the new Government tuition fee subsidy programme. For example, if a school is charging a K200 school fee, parents will pay K74 and the Government K126.
Uguro thanked teachers in rural schools for their dedication and sacrifice. “The only flags that you can see in remote places is for education and health,” he said. “In the valleys, up in the mountains and across rivers, you will only see that the government officer surviving and keeping the Government going are the education officers and health workers. “Where the ministers cannot go, where the politicians cannot go, where the bureaucrats in Waigani cannot go, it is our hardworking health workers and education officers out there representing and carrying our flag in the remote parts of PNG. “Without them, we will never achieve the objectives, plans and policies we design in Waigani.” Next : 2021 Grade 11 Selections For National High Schools Comments are closed.
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