![]() THE Papua New Guinea Education Department recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Humanlink International Manpower Agency in the Philippines to recruit skilled Philippine teachers to teach at vocational centres throughout the country. Education Minister Jimmy Uguro said: “I am pleased with the MoU signing and our talks with the technical education skills development authority (Tesda) which is the technical and vocational education training authority in the Philippines.” “In its efforts to improve the quality of education in the vocational schools, the department is recruiting skilled teachers to teach in various vocational centres in the country.
Uguro said since tertiary institutions in Papua New Guinea could not accommodate all students that graduated from secondary schools, students had been encouraged to continue their education in vocational schools by learning different trade skills to work here in the country or to find employment abroad. According to Uguro, these were expected to be achieved through the reform of the Tvet sector: THE training capacity of vocational schools in the country is enhanced by recruiting and employing overseas contract officers to become teachers/trainers; TEACHING and learning in vocational schools is enhanced through various trade skills to become competitive to local and foreign employment; THE signing of the MoU between Humanlink International Manpower Agency and the Education Department for the recruitment and provision of Filipino teachers/trainers with different trade skills as overseas contract officers to be deployed to different vocational schools in the country; and, A BILATERAL agreement to provide and assist in teacher training, accreditation and certification and exchange of vocational teachers in vocational schools in the country is formed after an audience with Tesda officials. Uguro said the minimum entry level required to enrol in a vocational school was Grade 10 and students who could not continue to Grade 11 were encouraged to take up skills training in vocational schools. He said similarly, students in Grade 12, who missed out on being selected to continue with their education at the tertiary level were encouraged to take up the vocational education training pathway to complete their education and become better and meaningful citizens of this country. Meanwhile, Uguro said the implementation of the 1-6-6 structure also affects vocational schools in terms of the different subjects or courses being offered. The National / PNG Education News Also read Comments are closed.
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