By JONATHAN JOE UPNG Vice Chancellor, Japanese Ambassador and JICA Chief Representative launched the new JICA Chair Program (JICA Program for Japanese Studies) at UPNG today. The students studying Japanese Modernization at UPNG under political science department will now have Japanese Guest Lecturers from prestigious Japanese Universities. Japan recently introduced the program to expand opportunities for Japanese development studies in various fields at universities in partner countries like PNG. UPNG will be the first recipient of the JICA program. The program will see a range of short intensive lectures on the Japanese development experience such as the success and failures with the process of Japan's modernization. UPNG and JICA will trail the program this year and future develop the program in the coming years to suit the growing research needs within UPNG. The Vice Chancellor Professor Frank Griffin said the University has a long History of taking this course. He said with JICA Chair program, the University will have a meaningful way to teaching this course. Meanwhile, the Japanese Ambassador Watanabe Nobuyuki said the program will help to build up Human resource in PNG. "Japan has a lot of ideas and experiences for over 150 years in terms of success and failures in the process of modernization and internationalization. "I think those experiences are the great text for the future development of PNG." He said Next : Report Schools Overcharging Fees, Says PNG Education Secretary Kombra Comments are closed.
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