PNG Education Minister Jimmy Uguro says, there won't be any school suspension throughout the country. Mr. Uguro says Schools will remain open until December 10th 2021 - when they all officially close for the festive season. Uguro says given specific situations in specific schools in provinces or districts, the established provincial COVID-19 task force or committees can make an assessment to suspend schools in their respective areas for up to 14 days. The Eastern Highlands Provincial Education board has suspended all basic education including elementary, community and primary schools for the 2021 academic year. According to a circular sent out by the Provincial Education Director Albert Wesley numbered, 18 of 2021, the PEB’s decision follows the Provincial pandemic controller John Gimiseve’s order to continue the lockdown for the next 14 days starting today. THE PNG Education Minister is authorised to make decisions on the suspension of classes and on matters relating to the curriculum and instructions, says Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra. During the surge in Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, he said they had allowed local authorities to deal with what was best for their areas, including the suspensions of classes to contain the transmission. But now, the academic year would continue as scheduled, pending any advice to the contrary by Minister Jimmy Uguro. SCHOOLS in East New Britain (ENB) are to reduce classes to three days a week in a bid to control and contain the surge of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The reduction is effective today for 14 days. Administrator Wilson Matava, in a circular, said the containment would end on Nov 14. “The intent of the containment is to arrest the increasing Covid-19 cases in the province by controlling the unnecessary movement of people,” he said. “Education is an essential service. THE flexible, open and distance learning (Fode) programme is in discussion with the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (DHERST) to consider its students for selection into tertiary institutions as school leavers.
According to Fode principal Anthony Rayappan, this would allow Fode students apply to online like Grade 12 students in the country. He said the aim was for Fode students to be given the same opportunity as grade 12 students from the secondary and national high schools and for colleges and universities to treated them like students from the system. THE Morobe Education Division will not accept teachers who have joined the system through fraudulent means next year, education programme adviser Keith Tangui says. According to Morobe’s Basic Education senior school inspector Kwinda Trenian, 32 teachers had been identified across Morobe as having attained their positions through fraudulent means after the inspection process this year. Trenian said out of those, 19 were new graduates from a teachers colleges in Lae while the rest were substantive level teachers who had passed through the system undetected. By Albertis_Photography Lake Bune in Imbongu District of Southern Highlands Province has claimed the Life of Late Jovi Apele, who is a final year student at Melanesia Nazarene Teachers College in Jiwaka Province. Late Jovi Apele is from Seven Corner (a village that border Kagua-Erave & Ialibu-Pangia District. The incident happened when he was doing his practical at Kero Primary School in Imbonggu District of Southern Highlands Province. Kero Primary school is just a few miles away from Lake Bune. Late Jovi Apele got drowned on Sunday (24th October) at around 12midday. The freezing cold lake kept the body from decaying since Sunday until yesterday. A PRIMARY school teacher has admitted that enforcing social distancing proved difficult, however, the other Coronavirus (Covid-19) protocols such as hand sanitising and wearing masks were easier to follow. Hagara Primary School head teacher Henao Koregai told The National that schools were overcrowded with a high number of students to small classrooms and other infrastructure making social distancing hard to implement effectively. Over 600 teachers from around the country have convened to Port Moresby to mark the Grade 12 Examination papers for this year 2021. The Measurement Services Division through the Department of Education is hosting the teachers in hotels in the city and the marking of examination papers is expected to be completed in two weeks. The teachers are marking the examinations scripts for over 27 000 students who sat for the Grade 12 Examination this year. TEACHERS of hearing-impaired students have no choice but to break the Coronavirus (Covid-19) rule of compulsory masking during contact hours, an official says. Siwi Pope, a senior inclusive education officer with the Morobe Inclusive education resource centre, said this one rule rendered their method of teaching impossible. “Apart from sign language, our students depend on lip-reading, facial expressions, body movement and other visual cues to translate the information communicated,” he said. |
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