![]() DHERST has announced the selection list for Western Pacific University for 2022 academic year. Congratulations to the following students selected to study at WPU.
![]() PARENTS can start preparing their children for Term One classes from Jan 31 without having to worry about paying fees as the Government has released K316 million for its free education funding. Education Minister Jimmy Uguro told The National that the Government released the funds yesterday which should be in schools’ bank accounts from next week. Teachers resume duties on Jan 24. Classes proper begin on Jan 31. The Government is bringing back its free education policy this year, after removing it in 2020 and 2021, and is paying the tuition fees of students from pre-school to grade 12. The K316 million is for term one and term two. YANGORU-Saussia will subsidise school fees of tertiary students whose parents live and work in the district, local MP Richard Maru says.
Maru said the district development authority would pay K1,000 for each student’s school fees. “Regardless of where you are from, if you are a policeman, a nurse or a health extension officer working in Yangoru-Saussia, you will receive the district’s subsidy for your child who is attending a tertiary institution,” he said. THE family and in-laws of a senior teacher in Wewak, East Sepik, do not want to accommodate the teacher anymore for fear of being attacked again by a disgruntled former student of the teacher.
The teacher’s family was attacked over New Year allegedly by the former student and his relatives as revenge for reporting the student turning up to school under the influence of alcohol earlier in the year. The student was expelled. The teacher and the student had lived next door to each other, according to the school head teacher ![]() A LACK of communication between the Education Department, Treasury and Bank South Pacific has seen some teachers in Western Highlands yet to collect their leave fares, an official says . Papua New Guinea Teachers Association (PNGTA) Western Highlands branch president John Yaga told The National that some teachers who collected their leave fares had their previous payment amounts and number of dependents reduced. “It is not a privilege, it is their entitlements and their plans to celebrate the festive period with their loved ones had been deprived,” Yaga said. He said the teachers’ association wanted to work in partnership with the PNG Teaching Service Commission and provincial education boards in each province to address teachers’ welfare. A PORT Moresby elementary school classroom that was badly damaged by a large truck last year has been rebuilt.
Hagara Elementary School head teacher Igo Borori said the school had been given K40,000 by the company that owned the truck to rebuild the damaged section of the building. The company did not wish to be named but hoped that the rebuilt structure would help students. “The building is complete but we have to look for desks and chairs because all of the properties inside were taken away, including goods in the truck when the truck crashed into the classroom,” he said. THE Zifasing Primary School in Wampar, Huon Gulf, will enrol its first batch of grade nine students this year after acquiring junior high status.
District administrator Moses Wanga and education manager Sam Geseng received the school code number and teaching positions as pre-Christmas gift from assistant education secretary Andrew Agobe early last month. ![]() The Education Department has announced the resumption date for 2022.
![]() Eight male students who were stranded at the KEREVAT NATIONAL SCHOOL OF EXELLENCE since December 11th,2021 due to no airline tickets arrived safely in Buka yesterday Sunday January 2nd,2022. The eight boys did not get their tickets and were patiently waiting until one of the parents contacted New Dawn FM to put out the story and find a sponsor for them to return home. A SECONDARY school in Port Moresby is happy with last year’s national examination results of its grade 10 and 12 students and praising teachers for their effort and commitment.
Gordon Secondary School principal George Kenega said despite the school dropping out of the top 10 academically performing schools nationwide in 2019 and 2020, Gordon made into top 10 again last year. “Gordon Secondary was always in the top 10 academically performing schools in the country but we fell out of the top 10 in 2019 and 2020,” he said. |
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