Papua New Guinea Government will employ mathematics and science teachers from India and other countries to fill vacancies in secondary schools, Acting Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra says. Kombra said the exercise had started with schools in Southern Highlands. “Our country currently needs teachers in mathematics and science fields so we will have to get more overseas. We have enough in other fields of studies,” Kombra said. He urged teachers’ colleges to be registered before they could enrol students. Kombra said requests for upgrading of existing schools and establishment of new schools must be approved by the provincial education boards and provincial executive councils and then submitted to the Education Department before March 31. He said there were only 14 recognised teachers colleges in PNG and the qualifications of those students graduating from unrecognised institutions would not be accepted. He was responding to the Catholic Principals’ Conference in Lae last week, which asked for salary increases to compensate for the additional workload brought about by the Tuition Free-Fee policy, and the retirement benefits for retiring teachers to be honoured by the Government. Kombra said he would take up the request with the Education Department’s review committee.
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Nigel
3/18/2016 06:20:12 am
There should be a condition where these teachers from overseas should not be given administrative positions. They should go as far as Head of Department. In doing so, they will fully utilize their purpose of coming here
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Samson NORIKGU
3/19/2016 05:21:23 am
Is this news implying that we (PNGians) lack enough qualified maths & science teachers or that we lack people who study maths and science to become skilled and educate the upcoming ones... It's 40 years now since independence and we still lack educated people in sophisticated areas, yet the population keeps increasing at a rapid rate! I think young people need to Think Big and study hard to change this bad trend for the better.
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