![]() Here is the selection List for Grade 11 for 2024 Academic year for Eastern Highlands Province.
![]() The Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra is warning his officers that the Education Department will not tolerate dishonest staff who drag its image through murk to beat the system. A media report last week claimed that some department officers were demanding money to process teachers’ claims. “As a big organisation, we do not condone and promote any illegal and malpractices,” he said. “The department has a zero tolerance on such behaviour by officers as all services the ministry provides are free. ![]() THE country’s premier universities are owed about K51.4 million in unpaid bills under the tertiary assistance scholarship scheme (Tesas). Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (Dherst) acting secretary Fr Jan Czuba said Minister Don Polye had written numerous letters to Treasury to release the funds but to no avail. Czuba said of the total amount, the department was yet to pay the University of Technology about K4 million, University of Natural Resources and Environment K2.2 million, Divine Word University K4,088,060, K4.3 million for the University of Goroka and University of Papua New Guinea K4 million. ![]() MORE than 70,000 teachers in the country are to receive their three per cent pay increment next year, it was announced yesterday. The increments would be backdated to Jan 1, 2023. The announcement came during the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Teachers’ Salaries and Allowances Determinations 2023 – 2025 between the PNG Teachers’ Association (PNGTA) and Teaching Service Commission (TSC) before the Department of Personnel Management (DPM) in Port Moresby. TSC chairman Samson Wangihomie said the agreement would have to go through several processes before it could be effective. ![]() The PNG EDUCATION secretary Dr Uke Kombra has announced school terms, holidays and examination dates for next year. He said term one for 2024 would start on Jan 22 for teachers, head teachers, principals and heads of institutions and students would resume classes on Jan 29. He said term one would have 10 weeks and would end on April 5. Term one holidays would be from April 18 to April 12. “Term two will begin on April 15 and would have 10 weeks. It would end on June 21 with its holiday from June 24 to July 5. Term three has 11 weeks from July 8 to Sept 20,” Kombra said. ![]() The Divine Word University (DWU) has announces the fees and acceptance list for continuing students for 2024 academic year. The university released the following information. *** The following notice to continuing students contains vital information for students to prepare for registration and others in 2024. The Student Progression list for 2024 shows names of students who have successfully completed studies in 2023 and eligible to continue studies in 2024. ![]() The Papua New Guinea Department of Education has a new-looking website which was launched by the Secretary for Education, Dr. Uke Kombra, PhD, OBE in a small but significant ceremony on Wednesday, 29 November. The Department has been using the old website which was developed by the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Division in 2005. The project to upgrade the website was coordinated by the Media and Communication Unit of the Department in close consultation with the ICT Division. ![]() BEING the youngest in a family of five children and losing both his parents while still studying, did not stop Altus Binawaiya from achieving his dreams of becoming a high school teacher. On Friday, Dec 1, 23-year-old Binawaiya stood proudly as he receive his bachelor’s degree at the 7th graduation of the St Peter Channel Catholic College of Secondary Teacher Education in Kokopo, East New Britain (ENB). From Basima village in the Duduna ward of Esa’ala’s Dobu local level government, Milne Bay, Binawaiya told The National that his older siblings did not continue to colleges and tertiary institutions because of school fee issues. Their parents were subsistence farmers and could not afford the fees. “After completing Gr12 in 2019, I was accepted to do civil engineering at the University of Technology in Lae, Morobe,” Binawaiya said. “However, the fees were too high so I ended up at the St Peter Channel College where the fees were reasonable. ![]() FROM the 31,252 Grade 12 students who sat the Upper Secondary School Certificate Examinations in PNG this year, only 18,900 will secure spaces in tertiary institutions, leaving 12,352 by the wayside. Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (Dherst) acting secretary Fr Jan Czuba said the quota had increased by almost 4,000 over the last five years. “We are increasing the quota slowly, but to increase it, we need to have more qualified lecturers and build enough staff houses,” he said. “We need to build more classrooms, dormitories and having big dining facilities to cater for the increased student population and better access to e-library. “Also, we have to secure funding for salaries to pay the lecturers.” |
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