![]() A 17-YEAR-OLD girl’s passion for music has helped her secure space at the Fountainview Academy in Canada to be part of an orchestra to play violin. Charlene Sahoto’s interest in playing violin began in 2018 when she was in grade seven, when her mother helped her registered for a two-week music programme in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea . “I already knew how to play the guitar and keyboard, so when mom said that the music programme in Port Moresby was also teaching violin, I said, okay, add it to the list,” she said. “I attended the music programme twice, in 2018 and 2019. “That’s when we were living in Kokopo.” ![]() Provincial School Inservice Training Held at Nawaeb Lutheran Secondary School. On Thursday, 29th June, a team from the Lae Tax Centre conducted a General Tax Awareness session at Nawaeb Lutheran Secondary School. The team consisted of Sylvester Mulung from the Taxpayer Services division, Anslem Selembia from Compliance and LTC Administration, Wilfred Gusse, who provided on-site support. A RESOURCE book for primary school teachers on environmental education was launched yesterday by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in partnership with the National Department of Education.
WWF forest programme manager Kenn Mondiai said the resource book was a national teacher’s guidebook that catered for primary school students from grades three to eight. “The guide book will equip students with an early insight into conservation and the importance of taking care of the environment,” Mondiai said. THIRTY-EIGHT female students from St Peter Channel Catholic College in East New Britain received a major boost in their learning early this month.
The students were supported under the Boosting Education Standards Together in PNG (Best PNG) Female Teachers Education Scholarship Scheme and will be studying for a degree in secondary education (mathematics and science). Nine received scholarship support from Newcrest Mining and 29 are supported by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Deputy secretary for Education Walipe Wingi challenged the students to remain focused in their studies, graduate from the college and be part of the education department’s vision to provide quality education for all. ![]() Ruby Sabie, 35, who is a Grade 10 leaver and a mum to four children, has graduated with a certificate as excavator operator at Mapex Training Institute on June 14. She left school in 2007 when she got married to her husband. Sabie said her husband would complain about his fortnightly pay not being enough whenever she and the children asked him for money. “He belittles me for the money he spends on me and his children,” she said. “So I took up the excavator operator training to make my own money.” Sabie said people criticised her when she took up the excavator operator course. “My husband’s family and friends would tell me that the course was not for females,” she said. “But that did not stop me. ![]() STUDENTS attending Walagu Elementary and Primary schools in Bosavi, Hela, have left the area and are trekking the jungles to Southern Highlands and other provinces in search for schools, Mt Sisa president Jackson Tepa says. Walagu Primary grade four teacher James Manu, who fled the area, has helped two of his students by accommodating them in Proma, Southern Highlands, to enrol them in a primary school there. “Other students have also packed their necessities and gone to Tari and Enga to stay with relatives to look for schools,” Manu said. Tepa said: “The teachers have left and the school will be closed for an indefinite period following the kidnap incident early this month. “Students travel long distances to get educated, those attending Kutubu Secondary School climb mountains, cross the fast-flowing Kikori River before reaching Waro village to get a PMV to go to school. “Most of the students are persistent about completing their education while others have given up, only five per cent of the total population get educated. MOROBE education department conducted a teachers’ position audit after a good number of teachers in the province were on auto suspension.
Provincial education adviser Keith Tangui told The National that many teachers were affected when the automatic payroll suspension came on. Tangui said the provincial appointment and salary offices were currently auditing the teachers’ positions to help those who were on auto suspension. “Go through the process to be on the safe side,” he said. “Any teachers that have been put in a position without the notice of the provincial programme adviser and the appointment officer, those teachers will get suspended or put off the payroll. “Those teachers who have been appointed by the provincial education board (PEB) are safe because they are on the Alesco payroll. SCHOOL managements and boards of management that deny enrolment for students with disability will be disciplined, Minister for Education Jimmy Uguro said.
The Minister was responding to the front page story in this paper this week of 18-year-old, Patrick Maika, a person living with disability, who was allegedly refused enrolment by two secondary schools in Lae, in Morobe Province. Maika, who was a top student at the Mildfordhaven Primary School in Lae, was supposed to continue grade 9 and 10 at the Bugandi Secondary School but was refused enrolment. According to our Lae-based reporter, the Principal of the Bugandi Secondary School refused to enroll him as the school was not able to provide the necessary facilities to cater for his needs. The Lae Secondary School was also alleged to have refused him a space as he was a transfer-in from Bungandi Secondary School. ![]() PACIFIC Adventist University (PAU) vice-chancellor Prof Teatuholi Maitainaho challenged the 293 International Training Institute (ITI) graduates to use their knowledge for the country. Maitainaho made this speech during ITI’s 59th graduation ceremony at the Apec Haus in Port Moresby recently. “With the knowledge you gained, go and utilise it for your family, community, and country,” he said. MORE than K25,000 was given to the family of the late Antonius Bito by his Port Moresby Technical College school mates on Monday.
The students visited Bito’s family residence at Garden Hill, Port Moresby where his haus krai was held with K25,518 cash and cartons of drinks worth K500. From the K25,518, K5,000 was given separately to Bito’s guardian, Martha Keluku. Student Representative Council president Nason Saus said the money was a contribution from the student body to support the family of their friend to repatriate his body to his home in West New Britain. “We were able to collect that amount of money through contributions from students’ provincial and regional groups,” Saus said. “We also collected some public contributions from our wheelbarrow walk in the city on Friday and Saturday.” |
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