THE PNG Teachers Association has called on Education secretary Dr Michael Tapo to explain what is really happening in the Government’s tuition fee-free commodity component.
Association general secretary Ugwalubu Mowana said Tapo should admit publicly that he gave the wrong advice to the Government on how the system should work. The National Executive Council had engaged Treid Pacific (PNG) Limited to supply materials to schools in the K40 million programme. “Tapo should have advised the Government to allocate the money directly into individual school accounts so that schools can purchase their own materials depending on their student requirements,” Mowana said. He said there were many schools in the country, including those in Port Moresby and Central, which were yet to receive the materials from Treid Pacific. “The current distribution system by one foreign-owned company (Treid Pacific) is unjust and must be done away with. “Funds should be channelled directly to the schools as has been in the past,” he said. Mowana said the data used by the education department was old and did not have the exact student enrolment figures since the introduction of tuition fee-free education. “There has been considerable increase in enrolment due to the tuition fee-free education since 2012,” he said. “In the absence of an updated school data, Tapo cannot say that the distribution is just. In fact it is totally the opposite.”
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