THE Government’s emphasis on quality education in PNG will never take effect unless it trains and motivates the teachers.
The teachers should be properly trained and equipped with the appropriate teaching skills and knowledge to meet the demands and standards the world is offering. As a former Education Minister said, “Today, we need teachers with masters and degrees in Education to run the schools in all level of education and their wage, salaries and entitlements would be paid based on merits.” The Government has allocated millions of kina for the education sector to facilitate teachers training but the funds are not utilised properly. Concerned Teacher NCD
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NRI research data shows that 70% of our people are illiterate and mostly concentrated in the rural pockets of province.
As chairman of Tom Nomalan Foundation in Southern Highlands for the last 10 years, I have been advocating for citizens to change mindsets on good governance. I now call on the elites of the province to make this Christmas period meaningful by educating their illiterate people at ward level on the basic citizens constitutional rights, roles and responsibilities. Our ordinary people need such this critical information, which can help the jump-start the process on greater accountability and good governance in the province. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to verify the social indicators on heath, education, law and order because the current statistics speak volumes. Our people need to become literate, educated and be equipped with the necessary skills to move this nation forward to the brighter future. William Tom, Via email Send "DND" to 16022: TO STOP DIGICEL ADVERTISING TEXTS
Digicel implemented an opt-out solution in early September this year. This was done after consultation with the regulator, NICTA (National Information & Communications Technology Authority). A customer can send a free sms with the letters 'DND' to the code 16022. Within 48 hours the customer will be put on a blacklist which means they will not get any sms messages/adverts from Digicel other than service messages (eg. network outages, responses to credit top ups). *The above information has been advised in writing by Digicels Senior Legal Counsel. I AM a primary school teacher in NCD who came to know that the Department of Education’s NCD division has approved the implementation of the biometric system.
The aim of this system, as per my limited knowledge, is to improve teachers’ attendance. That means you get paid for the hours you put in to teach. It will cost the state K5 million, but can this be justified? Teachers go late to work because they live in settlements. They walk long distances to teach children. Their conditions are below world teachers’ standards. Can this K5 million be used to build teachers houses instead? Or perhaps buy six 15-seater buses to transport teachers to and from schools? I appeal to the NCD governor and MPs for Moresby North East, Moresby North West and Moresby South to be aware of the plight of teachers. NCD teachers will be the first to fell the pains of this new system. What about the whole nation? You are looking at billions of kina, but this money can be used to improve teachers’ conditions. The Teaching Service Commission and relevant teachers’ union must fight for teachers’ rights. Get teachers’ conditions sorted out before rolling out the biometric attendance system. Realistic teacher, Via email WITH so many issues the country is facing now, in my opinion is due to break down in ethical and moral standards.
How can these issues be address? Firstly, make ethical and moral learning a compulsory subject for School. Government should drive ethical and moral learning in all institution. Human and individual values must be taught in school starting from primary to university. Do away with subject such as physical education and home economic and introduce new character development programs. We need an education system rooted in ethic. However, giving students a set of rules to live by is not a good way to teach ethics. Instead, modeling moral reasoning is crucial to developing moral character. Teachers introduce a word or phrase believed to be a desired character trait and then define it. Learning should shift into indoctrination rather than ethical insight results. The student needs opportunities to apply them to real and imagined cases, and to develop insight into both genuine and pseudo morality. The teachers then lead students through a discussion of this trait using literature and awards. Let’s start the next generation with a moral and ethics rooted in them. Education Department and government should do some radical change to our education system for the good of our children and country future. Koima Siwi Jiwaka I'm just thinking if the loan repayment is for 40years that means that persons will be working for almost his/her entire life to just pay off the mortagage. How about providing an option of if the that person has enough savings he/she can repay the loan for less than the stated period such as less than 10 years if they are able to afford it. i don't want to grow old with mortagage with idea of still repayig the loan.
By Debbie Nevoo THE recent stance by the Central Province and Southern region leaders against connecting of the nation’s capital with mainland Papua New Guinea is egotistic and narrowly contested.
This is a country struggling to cope with a thriving civilisation since independence. The argument that the highway will result in a massive influx of people from the Highlands does not reflect the aspirations of this country. Central Governor Kila Haoda and his people should appreciate that Port Moresby City in the heart of Central Province grew as a result of migratory movement of people, goods and services. Our ancestors were sea voyagers who migrated to where we are now today. In fact, civilization grew as a result of migration. And in the heart of migration and civilisation is transportation. The Government should open up road network linking every mainland provinces. Let me pen this for the people of PNG, this road will chart the way for developments this country has not seen in 39 years. Killo Wangon, Via email POLITICAL elites are generally highly paid, and fare well in social and economic terms.
They have at their disposal well-appointed official residences, guards, vehicles, chauffeurs and domestic servants. Political leaders need not incur much personal expenditure. And they usually get handsome retirement packages. So why steal? We have read or heard about some of our politicians caught in this act were they suppose not to do so. The reasons are only known to them but here are few common ones: * Sheer greed and display - Our politicians see office as a means to riches; they put up mansions and acquire luxury cars shortly after gaining office; they throw lavish parties; and they see extravagant lifestyles as their norm. Fools don’t seem to know that: An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end (Prov 20:21). * A little bit extra is always good - Payments from entrepreneurs seeking state favours represent an important source of extra-legal income for civil servants. State regulatory programs can place a significant burden on business enterprises and entrepreneurship and encourage investors to seek ways to minimize these state imposed costs. Paying bribes to civil servants has emerged as an important method to compete for rents by foreign investors in PNG. The so-called under the table deal! * Family pressures - Political elites feel obliged to share the proceeds of office with kinfolk. The extended family system leads office holders into corrupt and nepotic practices to meet these expectations. * Self-Preservation - Public office lacks secure tenure: many middle and top-level managers feel anxiety about the future. Politicians lose office in elections or coups and many bureaucrats go along with them. So, politicians and officials line their pockets quickly. Their actions hurt social and economic development by denying schools, hospitals and other public services and by the loss of investor confidence, buoyant economic activity, and public morale. Offenders are enemies of the people. Where democracy and political accountability are not rooted, economic crime is widespread and politics unstable. These acts of taking go on in the countries where the socio-economic indicators are worst - starvation, preventable diseases, feeble education and PNG is no exceptional. Billions of kinas of public funds continue to be stashed away by some leaders - even while roads are crumbling, health systems failing, school children have neither books nor desks nor teachers, and work. The responsible political and other elites seek medical help or educate their children in overseas countries, sometimes at state expense; they shamelessly rape their constituencies. Oh, what a shame! Rodney Nembo Lae THIS is in response to an article in the National about gay rights in Papua New Guinea.
The article mentions a documentary movie exposing hardships faced by gays and lesbians in terms of expressing their sexuality and promotes the rights of homosexuals without being discriminated or abused by the larger community. When talking about rights in such homosexual cases, who defines our rights or where do we get our rights from? For instance, I can always choose to do something which my conscience tells me is right. But that doesn’t mean that everyone will agree just because I think it is right. Someone will feel or think my actions are wrong and that it shouldn’t be emulated or supported by them. My point here is where can we get our clear instructions on what is right and wrong morally where every humans are satisfied irrespective of class. PNG’s constitution or any other country’s laws cannot provide any correct answer when it comes to defining human rights. Each country’s laws will vary depending on their traditions and culture which contributes to the enactment of their laws. I believe the only source we all as humans can derive our rights and make necessary character adjustments according to its directives without any differences is the Holy Bible. If everyone submits to its teaching, there won’t be any homosexuals in the world. Common sense tells us that our bodies were created specifically to meet the opposite sex’s sexual desires and not for same sex.Even the animals know and practice this basic fact. I just cannot comprehend the idea of falling in love with a same sex and justify this doing as a human right. To me this is not a right. It is totally wrong. It is sexual perversion at its best. It is something alien to this world. It was introduced by Satan and whoever is promoting this evil unnatural act is only doing the work of his or her master. There are countless issues that need government and public support. Homosexuality is not one of them. Application for Registration and Employment as a Teacher
This information applies to any person seeking to join the Teaching Service and to work as a teacher in PNG, including: • Graduates from a Teachers College under the Teacher Education Services Division or the University of Goroka. • Graduates who have completed qualifications in Education from another University or Teachers College either in PNG or another country. • Former teachers, under the age of 55 years, seeking re-admission to the Teaching Service For a person to be employed as a teacher in PNG under the Education Act, s/he must complete an Application for Registration and Employment as a Teacher. A sample copy of this form is included in this folder. This form is also to be completed by teachers seeking to join the Teaching Service in the unified Teaching Service. Graduates from a teachers college under the Teacher Education Division or the University of Goroka may be employed as teachers by Provincial Divisions of Education as long as they have: • Lodged an Application for Registration and Employment as a Teacher with the National Department of Education. • Completed a satisfactory medical examination by an authorised medical practitioner. Graduates from teachers colleges under the Teacher Education Division or the University of Goroka at the end of a year lodge an Application for Registration and Employment as a Teacher during their final academic year. This application form is processed by the National Department of Education and the Teaching Service Commission in readiness for employment at the start of the following school year. Persons whose names are not forwarded to the National Department of Education by a teachers college under the Teacher Education Division or the University of Goroka will not be considered for registration as a teacher or for membership of the Teaching Service. Graduates from tertiary institutions with no qualifications in Education cannot be considered for registration as a teacher or for membership of the Teaching Service until they have been approved by the Teaching Service Commission. |
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