BALOB Teachers College and several other teachers colleges are yet to have some of their students from 2019 and up to last year registered because they have not met the minimum requirements, an official says. Education secretary Dr Uke Kombra said many of these students either had not completed the course programme successfully or had not completed grade 12 with the minimum required grade point average (GPA) of 2.4. “Some of them don’t have the records, that’s why we terminated them,” he said. “Since then, there are a good number of them coming with their records and we’ve checked in the database and signed off on them.
“Last week, I signed off about 20. “Those who have proper qualifications are being cleared. “Those who have not, we are holding them and asking them to go and do Fode (flexible, open and distant education) courses again, do the exams and come back with the required GPA.” Balob Teachers College in Lae has around 800 teachers who graduated between 2019 and last who are yet to be certified. Spokesman Simon Gura said they were unable to teach because they did not have the diploma and teaching registration certificates. “We went to the school and were told that our papers were still at the Education office in Port Moresby as they were still screening our grade 10 and 12 certificates,” he said. “But the screening process has taken almost three years now for some students. “Some students who graduated in 2019, 2020 and 2021, have received their certificates but some of us are still waiting.” Gura said they had put their time, effort, money and resources into studying at the college and they now needed to work. Naomi Gawi, who graduated last year, said there were some students with low GPAs who had received their certificates and some students with good grades who were yet to receive theirs and this was unfair. “We don’t know what is happening at the Education office but we need the certificates to get work,” she said. “Give us our certificates and we can be screened or inspected by education inspectors while we are teaching. “We need an immediate response from the principal and the Education secretary (Kombra) on the delay.” The students said they had also raised a complaint with the Ombudsman Commission to look into the issue of their certificates. The national/ PNG Education News Next : Divine Word University Pioneer Nurses Graduate Comments are closed.
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