Construction of the Western Pacific University in PNG will begin soon, with the first intake expected by 2017, chairman of the project management team of the university, Fr Jan Czuba says.
Czuba said the institute was a national project that would be a university of technology offering different programmes to those at the University of Technology in Lae. He said the rapid development in the country demanded human resource capacity-building. “Therefore, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill with his cabinet through a national executive council decision, established a project management team to establish a second university of technology,” Czuba said. He said the university would be built in Ialibu, Southern Highlands and construction would start late in May or June. “I would like to put on record that the project is divided into three stages. We hope to finalise the first stage in two years’ time, which will allow us to have the first intake by 2017,” he said. Czuba said the team was working with the Lands Department to acquire land as work on finalising a master plan for the university which would include the physical infrastructure were underway. “We will take possession of the land when the landowners are paid according to the agreed terms and financial awards when the land is transferred to the Government to give it to the university,” he said.
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Janet Dickson
4/27/2015 04:46:07 pm
exciting to hear of this planned development in the Highlands.
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Tona Sampa
5/15/2015 10:51:38 am
That's the way forward, create more universities and also job opportunities
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