ALL remote schools in the education system will receive a special payment of K10 million as an additional grant in the fourth term, Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra says. Kombra said the additional grant would be paid in the last term with the Government Tuition Fee Subsidy (GTFS) for 2022. “Remote schools will receive their K10 million special grants together with the K158 million budgeted for the final quarter payment,” he said. “Remote schools face higher costs of services. “This is a subsidy on top of their normal grants to support schools.” Meanwhile, Kombra said all subsidies for term three would be paid soon. “Payment of K158 million is being processed and schools should be paid soon,” he said.
“Payment should be made this week but if there are delays in the process then they will be made next week.” According to the department, the government is taking full responsibility to pay 100 per cent of tuition fee under the revised GTFS policy. The Government maintains two components in the policy – operation and functional grants of which, 80 per cent funding is paid directly to the school accounts and a commodity component, that is 20 per cent, to procure teaching and learning materials and to support mathematics and science subjects in schools. It has been a month now into the third term and yet some schools have raised concerns that they have not received GTFS for this term. Alotau’s Cameron Secondary School principal Shirley Apaio told The National that her school needed their share of the subsidy to continue operations. “Preparations for the grade 12 exams are going well,” Apaio said. “Our main problem at the moment is the GTFS. “We are heavily in debt trying to remain open.” Apaio was hopeful that the payments to her school for this third quarter would be paid this week so that the school’s administration could continue the school’s operations. The National / PNG Education News Next : Grade 12 Written Expression Examination Is On Monday 15th August, 2022 Comments are closed.
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