Kopen Secondary School will be one of the first secondary schools in Enga Province to own a standby generator set as the province is prone to daily power blackouts. The constant power blackouts experienced on a daily basis in Enga Province is a chronic disadvantage to business houses and government institutions that heavily rely on electricity for daily operations. Shedrick Opo who is a secondary school teacher revealed that the Kopen Secondary School has been operating without electricity for the past four (4) years. MORE than 81 students from the National Capital District, Central, Lae, Kimbe, Alotau, Goroka, Kavieng and Kiunga will now benefit from the International Training Institute (ITI) scholarship. ITI president and co-founder Senthil Kumaran Sentheyval said K300,000 would be awarded to the recipients. With K3,700 to be awarded to each student, NCD and Central will have 45 students while 36 will be from the other provinces. A man believed to be a student was killed and several other people were reportedly wounded in clashes between students of the Port Moresby Technical College and residents of Gabi and Hanuabada villages today. Several properties including homes and vehicles were also damaged in these violent clashes. The fighting culminated from a robbery incident, in which a male student was reportedly robbed and valuables including two mobile phones, some school text books, a certificate and a laptop computer were stolen by thugs at the roundabout leading into Badihagwa high school yesterday afternoon. A PRIMARY school in Morobe has for the second time disciplined its students through expulsion and suspension for fighting during schools hours. Huonville Primary School expelled and suspended students after a video surfaced on social media showing students in a fight. Parents and Teachers Association chairman John Poroda, on behalf of the school board, said the three students involved in the fight were suspended from the school for the remainder of the academic year. The students who took the video and posted it were expelled. According to Poroda, the decision was endorsed by the provincial education board, with an instruction from Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra that there should be disciplinary action taken to deter others. The decision was handed down in front of the Morobe education board, school administration, police officers, students, parents and guardians. Morobe education adviser Keith Tangui endorsed the decision and also that mobile phones be totally banned from Huonville Primary. THE PNG Cancer Foundation (PNGCF), through its healthy teen school programme (HTSP), has successfully reached more than 2,000 participants in Lae, Morobe. In a statement, the outreach programme was conducted with the support of Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (PNGSMEC) and was carried out by the PNG Cancer Foundation and the National Cancer Treatment Center (NCTC) staff. The outreach programme was conducted on cancer awareness and education sessions with students and staff of participating schools in Lae. STUDENTS of St Ignatius Secondary School in Aitape, West Sepik, will soon have access to a resource centre to learn and enhance their computing skills.
The school had already been assessed and designated as one of the locations to host a resource centre being established by the International Telecommunication Union under the European Union – Support to Rural Entreprenuership, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-Streit PNG) programme. EMPLOYMENT opportunity for physiotherapy in the country is a real challenge that physiotherapists are facing, an official says.
President of the Papua New Guinea Physiotherapy Association Paul Naau said that the country had more than 200 physiotherapists, however, majority “were unemployed”. “We have about 60 per cent of the total that are unemployed,” he said. “When a physiotherapist was qualified, they were on the market and there was nothing that would prevent them from securing a formal employment. “It is the system that is not engaging them into the workforce.” Naau said that Divine Word University was the only university that offered the physiotherapy course. DAULO MP Ekime Gorosahu has recently presented a new Coaster bus to Asaroka Lutheran Secondary School in Daulo, Eastern Highlands.
“The bus is to transport teachers living out of the school, especially in Goroka town and travelling to and from school daily due to shortages of teachers’ houses,” he said. “This arrangement would be temporary until the new teachers houses would be constructed from a K6 million I am getting for the houses.” Gorosahu said human resources development and road maintenance and constructions were his top priority for Daulo. He had paid school fee subsidies for all Daulo students attending universities and colleges before the academic year started to fulfil his promises. A total of 78,966 grade 10 students from 452 high and secondary schools nationwide have nominated to sit for this year’s Grade 10 Written Expression Examination this morning ( Thursday, June 1st, 2023.) All provinces and schools have received their Exams as per the nomination data received by the Measurement Services Division in Port Moresby. Secretary for Education, Dr. Uke Kombra is encouraging all students, teachers and provinces to give their best and to ensure that the exams are done fairly and to the best of their God given ability. Port Moresby General Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr Paki Molumi says that there is a training plan for nurses in specialised areas as PMGH moves towards becoming a specialist hospital. In his speech during the commemoration of the International Day of Nurses, Dr Molumi alluded to the fact that the nursing division makes up fifty per cent of the workforce in the hospital with contributions towards patient care and that nurses need to be well-resourced so that they achieve outcomes. “As we move towards becoming a specialist hospital, we have to retrain our manpower so that we achieve those objectives. A skilled manpower, a skilled human resource will deliver the outcomes so you may have seen, we have a very big training plan for nursing into specialised areas,” he stated. According to Dr Molumi, few nurses have participated in the training program in Australia and that there are more programs that will come. “We are working on curriculums with the university so that you have a nursing career into those specialised areas. And I want the nursing division to support in the development of the human resource especially in the specialised manpower for this hospital as well for the country.” |
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