AROUND 31 per cent of the popular have never been to school and are classified illiterate, while 69 have received some form of education in elementary, primary and secondary school or tertiary institutions.
This is according to the 2011 data from the National Statistics Office. And because of the high rate of unemployment in the country, the Credit Corporation through its partnership with Yumi Project Inc came up with an initiative to prepare young people for job-seeking. Credit Corporation chief executive officer Danny Robinson said the target was young people who had completed Grade 12 and had furthered their study, or were staying at home while looking for jobs. “Through Project Wok, (we) prepare over 450 Grade 12 students from secondary schools around Port Moresby with the ability needed to help make their transition from school into the workforce,” he said. PAULIUS Nasupi received an electrical engineering national certificate (NC3) during the Port Moresby Technical College graduation last Tuesday — and was immediately offered a job.
Nasupi was the first to give the correct answer to a question posed by chief guest, Remington Technology chief executive officer Peter Goodwin to more than 1,000 graduating students . The question asked by Goodwin was: ”What year was the company established in Papua New Guinea?” To which, Nasupi then called out “1948”. “I have a friend who is working with Remington Technology whom at one time during our conversation had given a brief background about the company he was working for (Remington),” he said. “From that conversation I learned that Remington was established in 1948 in the country.” PNG HIGHER Education Minister Don Polye says he has a plan to introduce online learning in the higher education sector to optimise learning opportunities for the country’s tertiary level students. Polye, who is also Sports Minister, said this during Port Moresby Technical College’s 59th graduation ceremony yesterday. “This will enhance both the students and teachers’ learning and professional careers and would help them understand the world of growing technology,” he said. Polye said that they would make technology easily accessible and user friendly on campuses nationwide.. By Edward Maia | FM100 The Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance has signed an MoU with Dauli Teachers Collage of Higher education to roll out its Public Service Training at the subnational level to public servants, teachers and those wishing to take up public service roll with the government. Stationed in Hela, the agreement will see the roll out of training and teaching lesions incorporated within the collages curriculum to train and teach teachers at the collage and interested individuals in the sub national level to become government officials and public servants. PILAG’s CEO Michael Barobe said this agreement will see PILAGs service reaching people in remote parts of PNG. “The significant of this partnership is simply to roll out the training programs that we have here in PILAG. It is part of reaching the districts and provinces at the sub national level so that we could be able to train public servants to become good government officers” Barobe said. The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary is in the final stages of processing the 2023 police recruit intake with the final 13,039 shortlisted candidates due to appear before recruitment screening panels for final vetting. Commissioner of Police David Manning confirmed that screening panels will be held around the country from early April to mid-June, following which the 560 selected recruits will immediately begin their training. Mr Manning said the recruitment process has been strengthened through the use of digital technology, and plans are also being implemented to commission two new regional training centres for future intakes. Commissioner Manning said, “The RPNGC has made significant changes, particularly in recruitment, training and professional standards for the new generation of police. THE auto-suspension on May 5 will affect 15,748 teachers nationwide, Education Department secretary Dr Uke Kombra says. “The auto-suspension was earlier scheduled to take effect on April 7, but delayed due to a series of issues with the Education IT network. Not only that, but the relocation of the department headquarters to Vulupindi Haus has also slowed their work. “The entry of remaining resumption of duty summary sheets (RoDSS) is now affected, thus has been differed by two pay dates to May 5,” Kombra said. UNIVERSITY of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) graduates can directly check their graduation status this year, says secretary to the executive officer Hipak Pokupen.
“Unlike previous graduations, we now have information technology (IT) people at all the schools to fast track transcript issues for graduates,” he said. UPNG’s 68th graduation will be held at the Sir John Guise Indoor Complex from April 24 to 28. A SECOND-YEAR geology student from the University of Papua New Guinea was awarded a scholarship by Nickel 28 Capital Corp.
Nickel 28 Capital Corp, head of Asia Pacific Craig Lennon, who presented the scholarship to Shirley Ambang in Port Moresby, said the company hoped to grow the sponsorship programme with another student next year and in the subsequent years. PNG Education Secretary, Dr. Uke Kombra said the auto-suspension of teachers from the payroll for failing to fill in the duty resumption form at the start of the school year, is on hold. According to the education system, the auto-suspension was supposed to kick in on pay Number Five (5), however, this has been postponed to pay Number Seven (7). TEACHERS in PNG who fail to fill their resumption of duty summary sheets will be put off the payroll as of April 5, says Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra.
He said the auto-suspension of pay was to have begun on March 8, but was delayed because he was told by the Education Department payroll office that only around 50 per cent of the teachers had their data in the payroll system. “That would roughly mean 30,000 teachers will be off the payroll if we apply the (March 8 deadline),” he said. “So I have decided to move the deadline to April 5. |
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