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. THE Morobe education board will soon advise school heads to put a ban on students bringing phones to classes, says provincial education adviser Keith Tangui. Tangui made this comment after a Tiktok video showed Huonville Primary School students verbally attacking students in Port Moresby using vulgar language. He said after the deliberation made by the provincial education board (PEB), the principals, head teachers, managers and headmasters would be advised to ban students from bringing phones to school. “If the phones are brought to school for educational purposes, then use them responsibly,” he said. Tangui said the students should take ownership and know their priorities, because the country does not need people with bad attitudes. HUONVILLE Primary School has expelled seven students following a recent viral TikTok video showing the students verbally attacking students in Port Moresby using vulgar language. Two other students were suspended for the rest of the year and a further two were sanctioned with two-week suspensions. Chairman of the school’s parents and teacher’s association, John Poroda, who spoke on behalf of the school board, said the decision was made after the board took into account reports by staff tasked with investigating the TikTok posts. “The boys involved were also asked to submit their reports as well,” Poroda said. “Seven students were terminated, two were suspended for the remainder of the academic year. PNG Teaching Service Commission RECENTLY visited twelve schools within the nation’s capital to observe teacher to student ratio in classrooms to ensure a teacher’s welfare is not compromised. TSC Provincial Advisor – NCD and team leader Mr Paul Lapun explained to each school administration the purpose of the visit was to assess welfare of the teachers and teacher ratio against a class size in early childhood, elementary, primary and junior high. The schools visited include Waigani Primary School, Boreboa Primary, Gerehu and Badiagwa Secondary, Kaugere and Butuka Academy. Mr Lapun explains school infrastructure and curriculum is not TSC business. Midwifery students from St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Kokopo, East New Britain, have shared their satisfaction and excitement after using new birthing simulators supplied by the United Nations Population Fund Country Office and Laerdal Global Health (Norway) last month. According to the school’s Midwifery Coordinator, Ms. Francesca Bevi, the simulators help her 17 students build not only their competence but also their confidence, as the mannequins allow students hands-on practice before they enter clinical practice. Importantly, students can make mistakes, have these corrected, and repeat their correct techniques, before attending to live births. Ms Bevi shared that such practice is essential for women to receive the best quality of care. The Australian defence force (ADF) supported defence cooperation programme (DCP) continues to support capacity building within the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) through sponsoring of education for personnel. Three officers, from the PNGDF’s Engineering Battalion stationed in Lae’s Igam Barracks, were the most recent beneficiaries of the partnership between the PNGDF and ADF. Lt-Col John Wani, commanding officer of the PNGDF Engineering Battalion was among the three who graduated from the University of Technology (Unitech) on April 5. Lufa District in Eastern Highlands Province has rolled out its 2023 student higher learning institutions subsidy program. On Monday a cheque of K188,000 kina was presented to the University of Papua New Guinea for 47 students. On Tuesday, Pacific Adventist University received a total of K64,000 kina for 16 students. The students will each receive K4,000. Local MP and Minister for Environment Conservation and Climate Change Simo Kilepa handed over the cheque to the UPNG Finance representative in front of the students at UPNG. He confirmed the higher learning institution subsidy program consists of the district's K1 million kina funding and the Provincial Government's K1 million kina under Governor Simon Sia. All university students will receive K4,000 each, colleges to get K3,000 and vocational K2,000. A DISTRICT Court in Lae cautioned and discharged three university students charged with drinking alcohol in public on Friday. Magistrate Isaac Tjipet told the Papua New Guinea University of Technology students, who were released from custody, that many people had little regard for the law and drinking in public spaces was an example of this. Police prosecutor Maureen Pohei told the court that the defendants should have known better, especially as they were university students. She asked the court to impose a strict sanction on the defendants as a warning to others. AT least 10 teachers in Hela will be terminated for forging the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) chairman’s signature on their resumption duty forms to be on payroll, says chairman Samson Wangihomie. Wangihomie said that the officers had identified those teachers involved last week and they would be automatically terminated. He said their reports would also be sent to the Hela police for fraud. “As from now on any fraud matters, we are not going to wait but automatically terminate them as they are not fit to become a teacher,” he said. A UNIVERSITY student was one of two people killed in a road accident in Eastern Highlands last Tuesday. The student who was in his final year of studies at the PNG University of Technology, and the other deceased were part of K92 Mining Inc’s community affairs team, according to mine chief executive officer John Lewins. |
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