GRADUATING in absentia with a Bachelor of Communication Arts (Journalism) degree at the Divine Word University last month made me appreciate all the struggles that I endured to reach my goal. My education journey began at home when I self-taught myself, with the help of my dad, to read and write at the age of five. I hail from Maipenairu village in Baimuru, Gulf. I am the second eldest of four children. I attended Baimuru Elementary School in 2004 and continued to Baimuru Primary School. My dad left his Accounts Clerk job in 2006 to start a small business. He abandoned it after two years when the airport was closed. He became a fisherman to support us. My siblings and I would miss classes for weeks at times. We would go with dad and mum to fish and earn money for the family. I fell ill while in Grade 7 in 2010.
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AT the height of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, school closures meant more than 90 per cent of the world’s learners had to study virtually or from home. The internet, an invaluable educational tool, has, therefore, become more important for students. One of students’ most common internet activities, both in schools and in home schooling, is online searching. This means teachers and those parents currently standing in for teachers need to help students develop skills for searching online. So what can parents do to support their children when tasks sent home from school require them to search for information online? What can they do to extend such work for gifted students or when the work sent home runs out? Teachers and parents can have an influence on a child’s internet skills. Indeed, their search success is related to the amount of adult guidance and explicit instruction they receive. Unfortunately, research suggests some teachers don’t offer such explicit instruction. Some have trouble structuring (and providing support for) student online search tasks that go beyond lower-order skills. Evidence exists of a lack of search skills among teachers and parents themselves. The following three tips may help.
Shift your thinking about search Attitudes have proven more important than available resources or teacher skill when it comes to increasing students’ authentic technology-enabled learning. – The NewsDailyPost Next : HELP Loan Should Be Available To Agriculture By Petrus GAND I as a regular vigilante would like to convey my utmost appreciation of our current administration which ensured a stable political regime that transits to focus on agricultural industries, including SMEs and its HELP-Loan policy established and ensued ever since last year. The HELP-Loan policy is, perhaps challenging to most of the indolent secondary schools’ students and their parents with multiple progeny, when bombarded by the sudden swap of ownership of school fees, but it is a new educational trend plunged into our Constitution. Not only will it be susceptible to attract and motivate more students to strive and perform better to secure a satisfying spot in the tertiary schools, but it will emit hope as well, to the less fortunate but yet voraciously smart students who are systematically being prolonged. Practically, it was intimidating when gazing at the tertiary fees’ structures, as it had so far lured many students into not utilising their full potentials. Their abilities have been constrained and were rigorously atrophied as they engaged with the wrong group in the call of duty for our country. By Henry Kauke Every success story has its own message, and as the saying goes “You will never understand a person unless you walk a mile in their shoes.” My name is Henry Kauke, I am from Manam Island in Madang Province Papua New Guinea. I am the second born son of our family of 5 boys and 2 girls and this is my story. This journey has been a very challenging one and life changing to say the least. For the last seventeen years, I’ve been tried, purified and prepared for the great purpose ahead. During this journey, determination and a spirit of ‘never give up’ grew and became part of me. People I’ve crossed paths with wonder how I have managed to come this far, but I know that it has all been part of God’s plan. In October of 2004, an eruption on Manam island forced the suspension of school and the repatriation of my family and I onto mainland care centers. Life from here on was interesting. I was around grade 7. Most times, I would attend school on an empty stomach, without uniform, but it was during these times that my hunger for an education sprouted and grew. By Albertis Photography In the late 1800s, schools were designed & intended to teach obedience. During the rise of the industrial age, big corporations needed workers for their factories. The purpose of the academic system which was introduced at that time was to create obedient & complaint workers who never ask questions. There were plenty of scholars at the time, thus the creation of the standardized test was introduced. The academic system itself became a factory to standardize all of the rising students to ensure they fit the desired mold. If the students failed the tests, they would be held back another year to try again. Dispite the fact that our world has dramatically changed since the late 1800s, our school systems are structured in the same way. Story Written by Solomon Aplas A mother of five from a remote part of Nipa in Southern Highlands Province of PNG thanked her son for making her a proud mum. "Hardwork has paid off well and may God be glorified for making his success possible. Its a pride for the family and the tribe we come from." "I use to pay his school fees through selling of greens, bush vines and kaukau. But for Alfred Wesa, it was a dream come true when he graduated with Masters in Business Administration (MBA) this year at the University of Papua New Guinea As they say, our lives are shaped by our thoughts'. If our minds are shaky, we can't reach that destiny and so young people should never give up despite of challenges along the way as these challenges and critisms give you strength to be a real man and woman. Sometimes in life, a break up is inevitable no matter how promising the relationship was. Coping mechanism is important since most people lose their cool here and do things they live to regret e.g. getting into another rebound relationship too fast only to realize that it is worse than the one you left.
Education Talk : By Julius Jethro Positive Vibes Why education if you can’t find yourself in Colleges or Uni? What is an education? Why do one need knowledge to aid his survival? How long has the education survive the earth? Who to be educated from whom? Where can one find education and when is it applicable? Education is riddled with so many unanswered questions of human tragedy, the plague of illiteracy has rooted deep in our culture. Education is rare in the recent past. Those families who have been able to come to the terms of education with the “white men’s” life are enjoying the fruit of the education while vast majority of the population are yet to come to the fullest sense of education and what enticement it holds. I am overruled by humility, as I know life is not equally earned as well as airing out my thoughts, as I am exercising my basic human rights. Yes, it is true, only in the eyes of the higher authorities, but divergingly, law is being derogated in the usual flow of goods and services in our public and private sectors and yet nothing is being addressed due to its various speculative reasons. I was arrested while doing my second year at UPNG by the Uni-Force Security guards in 2019 around the sixth week of the first semester for having in-possession of one-inner cambridge cigarettes in the UPNG vicinity. Apart from that, my backpack harboured a Dell laptop, a Samsung smartphone and a special-documents folder which was grasped by the UNI-guards and handed to a particular Cop at the Waigani police station, who promptly snatched the bag, to avoid being snitched. Despite repealing the UPNG constitution, I was locked at the Waigani police station cell as if I was breaching the nation’s paramount constitution. ENGLISH is rapidly becoming a lingua franca in international communication for commerce and trade, education, science, international relations and tourism.
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