![]() STUDENTS involved in an inter-school fight in West Sepik were treated for injuries in hospital before being discharged on Friday, police say. West Sepik police commander Snr Insp Joseph Poema said the fight was between students of Don Bosco Secondary School and Vanimo Secondary School. Those injured were treated at the Vanimo General Hospital. “A fight broke out between the students during the one-week celebration of literacy week,” Snr Insp Poema said. “We contained the fight with the provincial education officers and teachers from both schools.” ![]() THE Papua New Guinea Government opened a new technical college for the people of Jiwaka on Friday under its policy of leaving no one behind in education. PNG Education Minister Jim Uguro delivered this message to the people as it converts the Jiwaka Technical Education and Vocational Training (Tvet) centre at Tombil to the province’s new technical college. Uguro said Jiwaka was the newest province and the Government was keen to make sure such services were established. He said this was a commitment made by Prime Minister James Marape during a recent visit to the province. Uguro said the Government had made education a top priority to move the nation forward. ![]() Hundreds of millions of children in South Asia are suffering because their schools have been closed due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and lack of online devices and connections for remote learning, United Nations Childrens’ Fund (Unicef) says. Authorities should prioritise the safe re-opening of schools because, before the pandemic, nearly 60 per cent of children in the densely populated region were unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10, it said on Thursday. “School closures in South Asia have forced hundreds of millions of children and their teachers to transition to remote learning in a region with low connectivity and device affordability,” George Laryea-Adjei, Uniecf’s regional director for South Asia, said. The back-to-school season can be hectic for parents and students alike, but this year brings additional challenges.
Many schools are resuming in-person instruction, in some capacity, which means students are returning to the classroom after months of remote learning. In addition to buying school supplies and finishing up your summer reading lists, make sure you’re taking steps to protect your mental health. Here are some simple tips to help you out. Be patient, flexible and prepared for a little uncertainty.
![]() By BILL K. LATA Every war is fought through battles. Collective results of individual fighters decide the final victory or defeat in a war. When we fight a war, the first thought we always have in mind is that there is no guarantee that we will win all the battles. Nevertheless, we are determined that the collective victorious battles by every fighter will outnumber the collective defeated battles, and thus we became winners of the war. These attitudes always bring value to the rationale surrounding the fight. In the war against “No Jab No Job” policy implementation by the private sector, Unitech ignited the first battle and took the case by the horn but was hard-hit with an uppercut blow on the nose. Our petition was unsatisfactorily responded to! ![]() After graduating from Unitech with a diploma in 2000, I was jobless for 2 years. In 2001, I moved to Port Moresby in search of job. I have sent over a 100 job applications to no avail. Organizations needed people with experience and I had none. In 2002, there was an advertisement for sales personnel in the print media. Being unemployed and desperately in need of a job in Port Moresby, I applied and finally landed a paying job with Courts PLC Courts PLC was a British company that had branches throughout the commonwealth (except Australia) countries. Courts (PNG) Limited traded in Papua New Guinea until 2006/7 when it was sold to WR Carpenters group of companies. Since then, all other branches throughout PNG were closed and only operate the Gordons Branch. I owe this company my life. It has helped me to be where I am. My take home pay at that time was K195.00. As a salesman, you earn commissions for everything that you sold. However, I was on probation for 3 months and not entitled to that privilege. My first month there was getting to know the trade and familiarize myself with the process and systems used there. In the second month, I was full swing - selling. Just two weeks of selling and I beat my target and beat the targets of other senior salesman. ![]() By Rebecca Negere Students from the PNG University of Technology (PNG UOT) in Lae, Morobe Province are currently staging a peaceful protest within the University campus to petition the government of Papua New Guinea to make the vaccination of COVID-19 voluntary and not mandatory. The protest started today with a boycott of classes by the students and a petition being presented to the Government this morning. They are not sure at this stage when the protest will end but it will depend on the Government’s decision on their petition outcome tomorrow on the floor of the Parliament. THE Hela Rural Development Foundation donated 18 boxes of library books to selected primary and elementary schools to improve students’ learning in Hela last week.
Founder Eric Yawas said the donation was part of their strategic plan to help boost children’s learning in the remote areas. ![]() The Papua New Guinea Prime Minister’s response to the “no jab, no job” policy has been branded a “weak statement” by the student representative senate from the PNG University of Technology (UNITECH). Student representatives in Lae expressed their dissatisfaction at the Prime Minister’s response in Parliament yesterday when he was asked about the implementation of mandatory vaccination by certain companies. During Parliament’s September 7th session, West New Britain Regional MP, Sasindran Muthuvel, asked Prime Minister James Marape to clarify the government’s stance on the “No jab, no job” policy. ![]() SOME women who did not go to school turn to abortion because they think it is the fastest way to end pregnancy, a student says. Grade nine student Francisca Gau of the La Salle Technical College in Port Moresby made the comment during a chat room show last week. She said those women failed to realise that their womb, meant to conceive life, “is the most sacred place in the world”. “It is the birthplace of the son of man,” she said. “To commit such an atrocity would be to deny a life blessed with purpose from God.” |
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