![]() Commentary by Adrian Neronggai Enhancing Student Learning and Accountability through Online Assignment Submission and Grading" For the past three years, I have been a student at the University of Papua New Guinea. And I must admit that I am deeply dissatisfied with the current approach of submitting assignments on paper and manually grading them. The current system takes a lot of time. Lecturers must spend a lot of time gathering and grading paper assignments. This not only causes delays in the delivery of feedback and grades, but it also limits the time that lecturers have to offer insightful and thorough feedback. ![]() Trans Pacific Union Mission (TPUM) education director Mere Vaihola has accepted a call to Pacific Adventist University (PAU) as deputy vice chancellor for administration. In this role Mrs Vaihola will provide executive leadership and oversee the areas of policy formation, operational management, human resources management, health and wellness, ICT operations, support services, physical plant operations development and campus security. The newly-created position is designed to complement the existing management team comprising the vice chancellor, deputy vice chancellor (academic affairs), bursar (financial affairs) and director of student services. Free Education: Tuition and projects Fees approved and ready to be deposited into School Accounts1/24/2023
![]() The Marape-Rosso Government has approved the first batch of tuition and project fees for the 2023 academic year. This should hit school accounts this week. The Education Department received two warrants yesterday totaling K396 million. Education Secretary Dr. Uke Kombra said of this funding, K316 million is for tuition fees covering Terms 1 and 2 and 50 percent of project fees, which is K80 million. ![]() PNG TEACHING Service Commission chairman Samson Wangihomie has advised schools yet to receive the resumption of duty forms that they will do this week. Wangihomie said the delay was because of an issue with accounts which had been rectified. He welcomed back teachers at the start of the new academic year. “I’m very happy with teachers around the country who resumed duties yesterday (according to) reports from the provinces,” he said. PARUL University in Western India will provide 50 per cent scholarship for Papua New Guinea students to study at the university, says Thomas Pillar.
Pillar, who is the director of Asia Pacific Institute of Applied Social Economic and Technical Studies (Apiasets), said this during the signing of a memorandum of agreement between Apiasets and the university in Port Moresby recently. “Parul University is giving us this opportunity to study in not only in Apiasets but abroad,” he said. THE delay in Tertiary Education Students Assistance Scheme (Tesas) scholarship payments is a major burden for sponsors, stakeholders, parents and students in PNG , a student says.
Lina Afaru, who will be doing her final year at Divine Word University (DWU), told The National: “The school’s administration is now putting the burden onto our parents to pay up outstanding for last year as a parental component for this year before registration. ![]() More than 60,000 teachers across Papua New Guinea's primary and secondary schools resumed duties for the 2023 academic year this morning. The Education Department is reminding the teachers to be mindful of their punctuality to their duties. Secretary Dr. Uke Kombra believes academic and learning achievements will not be effective, if teachers punctuality is lacking. "We cannot allow for any absenteeism in schools. Provinces must take the leadership to make sure that teachers attendance is an area of urgent attention." ![]() The Divine Word University has announced the Reserve List for the 2023 Academic Year. According to the university , this reserve list will be consulted should there be spaces available after the 17th of February 2023. Reserved candidates must take heed of the following:
PNG EDUCATION Minister Jimmy Uguro has urged MPs to assist schools in their electorates as regards the funding of school projects.
Uguro last week announced a Government directive to all schools not to charge parents project fees. He said Government was paying for everything – school fees and project fees too. He was responding in Parliament to questions from North Fly MP James Donald regarding school project fees. Donald told Parliament that project fees were important for a school’s to succeed. ![]() PNG EDUCATION Minister Jimmy Uguro now says schools may charge project fees as long as they comply with the department’s set standard fees. He went back on a directive he made last week to schools, that they should not charge parents any fees because the Government was paying for everything. “Parents must not pay school fees,” he said last week. “The Government will pay school fees for students from the elementary level to Grade 12.” He also said the Government was also paying projects fees to schools too, based on the education department’s standard set fees. But yesterday, Uguro admitted that that the Government’s tuition fee-free subsidy might not be sufficient for all schools. He said if schools wanted to charge project fees, they must comply with the department’s standard fees set. The project fees limit set by the National Education Board are: K20 (per student) for elementary, K60 for primary, K220 for lower secondary and upper secondary, K200 for vocational. This week, the Jubilee Catholic Secondary School in Port Moresby defied Uguro’s directive, saying it was going to charge parents K400 per student as project fees. School board chairman Joseph Yeou said they needed the money to fund school projects and infrastructure development, which the Government had failed to provide for. |
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