KEYS to two kitted classrooms and administration building at Kar Primary School in Southern Highlands, funded by the Australian government under the Highlands earthquake restoration programme, were handed over last Tuesday by contractor BK construction. Three toilet facilities for teachers and students have also been constructed. Australian High Commissioner Jon Philp is expected to attend the opening of the K3.5 million facility that will be officially opened on Wednesday. Provincial deputy administrator Fiebik Kilip said the Australian government’s intervention straight after the Feb 26, 2018, earthquake gave hope to many people in the Highlands affected by the disaster. CENTRAL students attending tertiary institutions should begin to take responsibility for their lives and not depend on their parents, Central Governor Robert Agarobe says. Agarobe said for the last three years, the Central government had assisted its tertiary students but this would stop. “There will be no more tertiary school fee assistance from Central next year but the province will concentrate on grade 11 and 12 students,” he said, SEVEN of the 81 students arrested last weekend at a beach in Kokopo over alleged illegal activities have been told to come to court next week with their parents. The seven are facing charges of being in possession of marijuana and homebrew. The other 74 have been charged with loitering. Police, after being tipped off by two girls who claimed to have been robbed by the students, found the 81 on Mamapua beach. Seven were supposed to appear in the Kokopo District Court yesterday but all the cases were adjourned to next week. SAGO can be made into biscuits locally, according to a Catholic priest at Sacred Heart Teachers’ College in Bomana outside Port Moresby. Fr Mateus Juang from Indonesia has spent over 15 years in Papua New Guinea helping locals in Daru, lower Bamu, Middle Fly and Kiunga in Western and is now training students at the college to sustain themselves through making flour from sago. Fr Juang said since arriving in PNG in 2001, he had promoted and carried out awareness on a sago flour project including sago biscuits and sago noodles. THE Bulolo development authority (DDA) aims to help schools in the district, an official says. With more than 50 schools in the district, the DDA is looking to help where it can to improve the standard of education. Local MP Sam Basil, who is also the DDA chairman, presented a cheque for K50,000 to Zopa Primary School in Zenag station, Mumeng, last week and reminded the school to provide acquittals for the money used and show proof of work done. PRINCIPALS and head teachers of schools in Southern Highlands have been urged to improve their performance in order to ensure a higher standard of learning in the province, provincial education adviser Che Mepio says. Mepio said teachers and school administrators could not afford to be complacent in their duties and responsibilities to the province’s youth. He said health and education were key areas for development and the focus would be on building capacity, improving and maintaining a good standard, and this was where teachers and public servants needed to step up. KUNDIAWA-Gembogl MP William Onglo is urging Andy Siure Primary School students in the Waiye local level government area to study hard using the facilities in the school to be successful in life. Onglo made the remark during the opening of a four-in-one double classroom and staff house last Wednesday. He said the school had given him a challenge when the management used the facilities carefully so he added on K50,000 for their infrastructure development. He said last year they supported tertiary students around the country and this year they focused on primary, secondary and elementary schools in the district. The Papua New Guinea Department of Education has rescheduled Examination dates for 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The New dates for the National Examinations for Grades 8, 10 and 12 are as follows:
The Save the Children team were thrilled to host the Minister for Education Hon. Joseph Yopyyopy at their Port Moresby office on Tuesday last week. Save the Children’s Pacific Regional Director Gerry Dyer expressed that it was a real honour for the team to host Minister Yopyyopy who is a champion for Early Childhood Development. “We’re privileged to work with the Minister and his team to ensure that schools are a safe space for kids to receive quality education. As the Minister said, “early and basic education is the foundation to life”. THE PNG Education Department is concerned that the increasing demand for quality education and any decline in the Government’s budget for education can affect the delivery of quality education in the country, a senior education officers conference in Wewak, East Sepik, was told. The education system which depends heavily on Government tuition fee subsidies for schools was discussed on the first day of the meeting. Department’s first assistance secretary financial services Camilus Kanau made a presentation that drew a lot of discussions including some frustrations by provincial education advisers on how much government subsidies were affecting schools. |
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