![]() With over 340 schools and a population of 10, 970 students, one of the challenges Eastern Highlands Province face is ensuring quality education is given to all equally. It is the Governor Numu's vision to build Eastern Highlands Education and human resource development by seeing to it that there is Teacher Quality; Curriculmn Quality and Infastructure Quality in the province. 'We have been working on educational infrastructures in the province, because we believe that good infrastructure can boost learning and education quality', Hon Peter Numu said at the launching of Solar Printing Technology. 'We are now focusing on Curriculmn Quality and Teacher Quality'. ![]() Police in Manus province have reported that a 16-year-old girl was packed raped by three young men while returning home after completing her last grade 8 National Examination paper on Thursday 5th November at Ward 3 Lorengau town. Manus Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Chief Inspector David Yapu said the victim was following a short cut track to go to her house between 2pm and 3pm when she was confronted by the drunken suspects. The suspects forced her to drink the home-brew, but she refused, and they held her and forcefully had turns in raping her. The victim was rescued by her aunty and reported the matter to Police and was taken to Lorengau Hospital for medical examination. ![]() BETTER facilities are needed in schools so children can receive quality education, a school principal says. Jubilee Catholic Secondary School principal Bernadette Ove said this during the opening of a new double-storey four-in-one classroom in Port Moresby yesterday. The building is one of Digicel Foundation’s projects. While thanking the Digicel Foundation for the building, Ove said the school was established from a closed-down hospital in 2000. “Since then, we had never had a new building,” she said. ![]() THE second-semester payments of fees for students in higher education institutions under the Tertiary Education Student Assistance Scheme (Tesas) are delayed because of the Covid-19 and rescheduling of school calendars and timetables, Fr Jan Czuba says. The Papua New Guinea Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (DHERST) secretary said because of the strain on the economy, the department had to wait until the supplementary budget was passed before they could access funds to make payments to tertiary institutions. ![]() NINE children attending the Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) library learning centres in Port Moresby toured the cabin of an aircraft yesterday and told to think about becoming pilots. They toured a PNG Air ATR aircraft yesterday in Port Moresby to celebrate the partnership between the BbP and PNG Air. Buk bilong Pikinini executive officer Leanne Resson said PNG Air had assisted in the delivery of 65,953 books to 54 schools in 16 provinces around the country. ![]() THE Port Moresby Business College launched its management strategic plan for 2021 to 2025 which focuses on delivering a high quality curriculum and services to its students. The plan aims to guide the college to face challenges in the future and find opportunities to strengthen its capacity. Principal Carmela Mokulabeta said a component of the plan included the introduction of new diploma programmes as well as a plan to offer degree programmes next year. MORE than 100 students from the six districts in Madang will return home and put to practice what they have learnt in the Philippines.
The 106 students consisting 15 female and 91 male students underwent a six-months training at Hinch Technology School of Business in Batangas, Manila, studying various trade courses under a scholarship programme funded by the Madang government. Governor Peter Yama told media outside Parliament yesterday that the programme, which cost K5 million, started last year and aimed to offer Madang students and youth opportunities to study and learn skills overseas. ![]() The Papua New Guinea Internal Revenue Commission will be responsible for administering the repayment of the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP), for tertiary level students. The HELP - a program of the National Government to assist students with their fees and have repaid a fortnightly 10% once they start working has seen many concerns raised on its 'repayment.' However, the Department of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (DHERST) Secretary Fr. Jan Czuba told NBC News, amendments will be made to the Income Tax Act 1959 to enable IRC to administer. ![]() Over 5000 students from 32 institutions across the country have so far benefited from the National Government’s recently introduced Higher Education Loan Program (HELP). In an interview with NBC News today, Department of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (DHERST) Secretary Fr. Jan Czuba said, from the K230 million funding allocation towards the program, K44 million was allocated while only K30 million was released. Fr. Jan said the program is targeting all levels of tertiary education, but for now – it is only given to undergraduate students largely from universities and colleges with funding ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 kina. ![]() THE University of Goroka (UOG) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Teleformin development authority (TDDA) to train 10 teachers annually. The teachers are to return to serve in the district. “The UOG will accept 10 students from Teleformin Secondary School to take up studies in various programmes at UOG,” Teleformin MP Solan Mirisin said. |
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