![]() 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.” ![]() THE Morobe government will be depositing 58 cheques worth K10 million to higher education institutions around the country today (Monday). This is part payment of school fees for students who have won the Gerson Solulu Scholarship for this year. Executive manager Robert Ayang in announcing the funding said the total amount for tuition fees for the 4,557 awardees was K34,522,997.99. “We have six categories of tertiary institutions that the winners of our scholarship are attending this year,” he said. Ayang confirmed that for this year, the Gerson Solulu scholarship programme would be sponsoring the recipients at 100 per cent. “The provincial government will be paying the full tuition fees for 1,675 students across nine universities, 708 students from 10 technical colleges, 780 students from 12 teachers colleges, 600 students from six seminaries, 84 students from 15 nursing colleges and 710 students taking up short courses at six different training institutions.” Ayang clarified that the deposits that would be made today would account for 28 per cent of the total fees. ![]() UNIVERSITY students must be allowed to protest and not be silent on matters which they feel that they can express their opinion on, says University of Technology chancellor Dame Jean Kekedo. “When will the Government ever learn that the people’s voices are represented through university students,” she said. “I am sure most of the leaders and those who are in government authority have participated in such protest in the past, and we expressed our opinion freely without being threatened, harassed or even shot at. “These students have an opinion, they only want their opinion to be heard, the more you suppress them and they get frustrated that is when they find other means to express that anger.” ![]() MORE than K150 million PNG government tuition fee subsidy (GTFS) funds were paid into all schools’ accounts last week, says Education Secretary Dr. Uke Kombra. “As of Friday last week, all school accounts with Bank of South Pacific, Kina and Westpac banks received their GTFS funds. “Accept for decentralised provinces, the money was deposited into provincial trust accounts,” he said. “These will be the only schools to face delays while waiting for the money to be transferred from provincial trust accounts into theirs.” Kombra gave a stern call to decentralised provinces to take responsible actions in transferring GTFS funds to respective schools’ accounts. ![]() THE Teachers Savings and Loan Society (Tisa) has made a record net profit of K76.49 million and has a balance record of K1.17 billion after taxes for the 2022 financial year, board chairman Gabriel Tai says. Addressing a media conference in Port Moresby yesterday, Tai said Tisa’s strategic objectives had resulted in a seven per cent interest rate of return paid to its members Yumi accounts, and its transformation to satisfy Bank of PNG’s conditions to become a commercial bank. Additional interest payouts would see two per cent each credited annually to members’ general savings accounts, Yumi accounts and six per cent for members with special savings accounts. ![]() Photo and Story by Charlie Clyde Tikaro Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has addressed the protesting students from the PNG University of Technology at the university campus hall. This comes after he received their petition through Morobe Governor Luther Wenge during the Morobe Provincial Assembly Meeting today. Unitech SRC President Kenzii Walipi presented a total of nine very important questions to PM Marape relating to the much talked Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) which the students had protested against on Monday. PM Marape took time to properly provide answers to each question with a lot of clarity and facts. ![]() THIRTY-SEVEN new apprentices have joined Ok Tedi Mining Ltd’s (OTML) apprenticeship training programme, bringing the total of apprentices to 73. OTML general manager for people and capability, Mark Stone, welcomed the new apprentices and highlighted the importance of safety, discipline and professional conduct in their careers. Stone emphasised OTML’s values of safety, integrity and teamwork to be used as guiding pillars in their apprenticeship journey. The first-year apprentices signed their indenture contracts with OTML and the National Apprenticeship Trade Testing Board (NATTB) last week Tabubil, Western. The 37 apprentices include 19 males and 18 females who are enrolled in various trades including auto electrical, carpentry, cabinet making and joinery, electrical, heavy equipment fitting, maintenance fitting and machining, metal fabrication and welding, plumbing and refrigeration and air-conditioning. ![]() Trukai Industries has joined a partnership with the Pacific Adventist University (PAU) to continue the company’s rice cultivation training under its Smart Farmer Program. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed at the Trukai office in Lae on Monday 22nd May 2023. The agreement with PAU comes after the company successfully certified more than 105 local rice farmers in irrigated rice farming, which was facilitated under the partnership with the PNG University of Technology’s Agriculture Department earlier this year. The five-year agreement with PAU is a partnership aimed at utilizing academic and professional facilities to enhance the knowledge of local rice farmers in PNG and provide farmers with an accredited certificate from a recognized tertiary institution in Papua New Guinea. The partnership with the university will allow local rice farmers to have access to classrooms, research facilities, farming areas, student training, and extension activities. ![]() ESTABLISHING Teaching Service Commission (TSC) adviser offices in provinces will minimise teachers’ welfare issues every year, says TSC commissioner, operations, Mike Maini Ugaia. Ugaia said in any sector, teaching service made up the biggest number of employees in provinces. “After 50 years, we want to see that we have offices in the provinces because that is where our teachers are,” he said. East Sepik education advisor Timothy Yavu said having TSC advisers in provinces would save time and money. ELA Motors has supported the Project Yumi Inc, a not for-profit organisation, with K27,000 to enhance quality education in rural communities in three provinces.
Project Yumi Inc representative Arleena Kukari said they would use this money to buy school materials from Australia and deliver it to five rural-based schools each in Morobe, Madang and Enga. “We will get our materials in containers and then send them to Morobe, Madang and Enga, to ensure schools in the rural communities and improve the standard of education,” Kukari said. |
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