![]() TEACHERS in Hela have been warned that if they miss work for 10 consecutive days, they will be taken off the payroll. Education adviser Ronny Angu issued the warning during a visits to schools with other officials. “There are reports that dozens of teachers are not at school but attending to private matters during working days,” he said. THE PNG Education Department has distributed Standard Based Education syllabuses and teachers’ guides for primary and elementary schools, secretary Dr Uke Kombra says.
He said for secondary schools, the books had been printed over the Christmas break and they were waiting for funds to be distributed. “We have done training for secondary teachers and we are waiting for the funds to come and we can distribute them to all the secondary schools – teachers’ guides and syllabuses – so that’s the first phase. The second phase is to actually go into the students’ resource books,” he said. “To go into heavy production of students’ resource books and teachers’ resource books will be the next phase of funding but in the meantime they will continue to use the content that is there. The content is still the same.” THE upgrading of national high schools has resulted in a better performance by students last year, says secondary education management and coordination director Benny Rayappan.
He told The National that the Government wanted special schools to be called schools of excellence with the advancement in science and technology. The schools of excellence are Sogeri, Aiyura, Passam, Kerevet, Wawin and Port Moresby national high schools. A UNIVERSITY in East New Britain is focusing on rural development and upskilling students to make a difference in the community.
The United Church University (UCU) is made up of four satellite campuses three in East New Britain – School of Education Gaulim Teachers College, School of Theology and Mission Rarongo, School of Skills and Leadership Malmaluan and School of Rural Health Salamoa. A school of agriculture would soon be established in Port Moresby. Vice chancellor Prof Gairo Onagi told The National that the university was a school of difference. “We are calling it the university with a difference because we are following a different philosophy,” he said. “Apart from writing and learning, we are giving them life skills.” ![]() The PNG Education department is urging the general publics, schools, students and parents to report any fake teachers who have joined the teaching force through fraudulent means. These teachers include those
![]() The Education Department says, school certificates for year 2020 haven been printed and distributed to schools early this month. Students can now go to their respective schools and collect their certificates. ![]() SOME students who graduated from teachers training institutions in 2019 have been refused diploma certificates because they had cheated to get better grade point average (GPA), says Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra. He said they would not receive certificates because they failed to meet the requirements to qualify as teachers. As of last week, the department approved 153 out of the 609 graduates to receive their certificates. “And when they get their certificates, they will also get their teacher registrations,” he said. ![]() EDUCATION secretary Dr Uke Kombra says 620 elementary school teachers have been deregistered after it was found that they had enrolled in teachers colleges through fraudulent means. He confirmed yesterday in Port Moresby that education department officials discovered after a thorough vetting of teachers’ qualifications that the teachers had used other people’s certificates to enter the teachers training institutions. “A week ago we deregistered 620 elementary teachers around the country,” he said. “We found that 620 of them had fraudulently enrolled themselves in (teacher training) colleges.” He said it was later discovered after proper vetting of their education background that the certificates they used to enter the colleges were not genuine. ![]() THE Papua New Guinea Department of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (DHERST) is seeking K75 million from the Marape Government for this year’s higher education loan programme (Help). DHERST secretary Fr Jan Czuba said they believed there would be enough money available for this programme. “We are still awaiting advice from Treasury because the global economy is compromised by the Covid-19, including Papua New Guinea’s,” he said. “Our Government has to look at the budget allocations and we see what honestly we can finance and how much.” Education Department Deregisters Teachers for Fraudulent Enrollments and Falsifying documents2/8/2021
The Papua New Guinea education department has begun deregistering teachers for fraudulent enrollments and falsifying documents. The department is starting with elementary and will soon look into primary and secondary school teachers.
Below is the list of teachers that have been deregistered. |
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