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Pg5 | Teacher Education needs attention Pg11 | A lifeline for Non-School Leavers Pg10 | MOA to boost Gender Studies 2016, New beginnings The University of Goroka’s Council headed by Chancellor Mr. Joseph Suk- wianomb is working on retaining lost pride to Papua New Guinea’s leading Teacher Education University – The University of Goroka. In welcoming the students to the 2016 Academic Year, Mr. Joseph Sukwi- anomb said The University of Goroka is on a recruiting drive to attract staff of high caliber, both academics and professionals, to lift the standard of the University. Working together with the Top Management Team led by Vice Chan- cellor Dr. John Kola, the Chancellor said the Council will make sure they work together in complimenting each other’s work. n Turn to Page 4 Interim Council, Management paves way for bigger things From left: Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr. Samuel Kopamu, Vice Chancellor Dr. John Kola, Chancellor Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb, Pro-Chancellor Dr. Musawe Sinebare and Registrar Mr. Sam Gagau during the dedication of the 2016 Academic Year. News and Information from The University of Goroka BULLETIN UOG Issue 1 2016 January - February

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2016, New beginnings

The University of Goroka’s Council headed by Chancellor Mr. Joseph Suk-wianomb is working on retaining lost pride to Papua New Guinea’s leading Teacher Education University – The University of Goroka.

In welcoming the students to the

2016 Academic Year, Mr. Joseph Sukwi-anomb said The University of Goroka is on a recruiting drive to attract staff of high caliber, both academics and professionals, to lift the standard of the University.

Working together with the Top

Management Team led by Vice Chan-cellor Dr. John Kola, the Chancellor said the Council will make sure they work together in complimenting each other’s work.

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Interim Council, Management paves way for bigger things

From left: Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr. Samuel Kopamu, Vice Chancellor Dr. John Kola, Chancellor Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb, Pro-Chancellor Dr. Musawe Sinebare and Registrar Mr. Sam Gagau during the dedication of the 2016 Academic Year.

News and Information from The University of GorokaBULLETINUOG Issue 12016 January - February

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The University of Goroka interim Council and the Top Management Team (TMT)Seated (From Left): Dr. Julian Kaman, Dr. Musawe Sinebare (Pro-Chancellor), Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb (Chancellor), Dr. John Kola (acting Vice Chancellor), Dr. Samuel Kopamu (Pro-Vice Chancellor), Mr. Lawrence Titimur. Standing (From left): Mr. Pascallis Mape (Executive Officer - VC & Council), Mr. George Minjihau, Mr. Stephen Rere, Dr. Alfred Tivinarlik, Mr. Leslie Hoffman, Mr. Sam Gagau (University Registrar).

The University of Goroka’s Top Management Team

Dr. John KolaActing Vice Chancellor

Dr. Samuel KopamuActing Pro-Vice Chancellor

Mr. Sam GagauUniversity Registrar

University CouncilThe Interim

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By Dr. Samuel KopamuActing Pro Vice Chancellor

THE University of Goroka’s Top Man-agement Team is pleased to announce that classes for this year 2016 com-menced on February 29.

We give full glory, honor, and praise to God for all that has happened to this University on the hilltop, as we look forward to another year 2016 with optimism and hope for better things to come.

In fact, everyone thought that the 2015 academic year will not end successfully as it did. But thanks to our resolute faith in God, and combined with the strategic interventions by the National Executive Council, the 2015 academic year was completed success-fully with all student assessments done.

In welcoming staff and students to the new academic year, the Manage-ment wishes to hereby announce that work towards providing free Internet Wi-Fi access for students has already commenced.

The Management has budgeted

K800,000 for this purpose, and has already paid the first installment fee of K100,000 to Telikom for the installation of Wi-Fi Hotspots at various locations throughout the campus including: l Student Dormitories; lAcademic Departments;lLookout;lStudent Dinning Hall;lSteven Eka Library;lMark Solon Auditorium; lStaff Residential Areas;lMidwifery; and,

lUOG farm.

The network backbone connection is almost completed, and Telikom is cur-rently awaiting switching equipment to arrive from Huawei in China. Once this equipment arrives and installation is completed, we expect students to have free Internet access from anywhere on the campus, starting sometime in the middle of this semester.

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TMT outlines plans

Students sorting out their registration matters with Student Welfare Division during the registration week.

Information, Communication Technology gets needed attention

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One of the Council’s main objectives when appointed last year by the Min-ister for Higher Education, Research Science and Technology Hon. Malakai Tabar was to bring to normalcy the ac-ademic year and contain the relentless student unrests.

“You remember the 23rd of Septem-ber last year, our one and only purpose was to secure The University of Goroka from collapse (and) from disarray,” Mr. Sukwianomb.

“It could have been an embarrass-ment for both the country and the Government of the day. We want to assure Papua New Guinean’s and oth-ers, our friends, collaborators, sponsors and investors that we have secured the University, one of the four State Univer-sities from collapse.

“We build for ourselves as an institu-tion, both Management and Council, that assurance to the people of Papua New Guinea and to the Government in particular that we have secured the university.

“We will be looking to them to help, as we move on to push the agenda of building this University, within PNG but also within the region.”

Mr. Sukwianomb and Pro-Chancel-lor Dr. Musawe Sinebare have a long history associated with The University of Goroka.

Going down memory lane, the then Goroka Teachers College (GTC) was a campus of the University of Papua New Guinea until 1997 when it was granted its University status in a National Execu-tive Council (NEC) decision.

The other two institutions to get university status that year was the Pacific Adventist University and Divine Word Uni-versity.

Mr. Sukwianomb, who was then the Vice Chancellor of UPNG was instru-mental in GTC getting its university stat-ues. Dr. Sinebare was the figure behind all the administrative work in “creating the future” for this University.

Almost 20-years on, these two gen-tlemen have been brought back by the Government to chart a new course for this University.

“As an institution that we all will be

proud of, we are already and we want to build from what we have a teacher training institution that provides the best teacher education for PNG and for the rest of the region,” Mr. Sukwianomb said.

“We have worked hard to secure the competency levels of the teachers that we train by giving them the content based education in Social Science, Science, Technology, Communication

and all the others so that we boost the content of the Bachelor of Educa-tion Programme.

“We want to tell the people of Papua New Guinea

that under Dr. Kola’s guardianship and leadership in academia and experience in management of Public Institution, him and his team are working on mak-ing sure that we provide courses with course coding and that every lecturer who is responsible for teaching a pro-gram or strand produce a handbook.

“Vice Chancellor on his part is going to be recruiting some of the best people available both in country and

outside so we are preparing for – if you like – the future for tomorrow is here.

“Eighteen years ago the future was there and we brought it forward, so we are a leading part of the proud history of this institution. We started from a teachers college way in the 60s up to this point in time, 18-year-old Public University. A Public University placed in the Highlands of the region.

The Chancellor challenged the stu-dents and staff to be more proactive in the exercise of their duties/responsibil-ities.

Vice Chancellor Dr. John Kola con-firmed Mr. Sukwianomb’s annotations saying the University was now stabi-lised and running normally but a lot more needs to be done.

“There are lot of areas that need im-proving, in terms of accountability and transparency and these are issues that the Management is looking at with the help of Council,” Dr. Kola.

“Because on the Council we have people who are very experienced in specific areas that are helping us Management to bring to The University of Goroka into the light so that all our achievement are accountable.

Charting a Government institution’s path to new heights

Eighteen years ago the future was there and we brought it forward.

- Joseph Sukwianomb Chancellor

Chancellor Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb addressing students at the Mark Solon Audito-rium during the Academic Year opening.

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DEVELOPING Teacher Education is a key area that needs more attention.

This was the main point of discussion by academics from the University of Oxford and The University of Goroka during a recent Education Seminar held in Goroka.

The seminar, which was held on Feb-ruary 15-19, was part of a collaboration between the two universities which stretches back to 2013.

The team from Oxford that attended the seminar include Professor John Furlong, Dr. Ian Thompson and Dr. Ann Child.

Prof. Ferlong, who is the ex-director of the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, and Dr. Childs dis-cussed the issues of developing Teacher Education and best practices around the world while their counterparts at The University of Goroka presented their experiences and challenges they faced on Teacher Education.

Dr. Childs said the specific issues and challenges raised would be examined.

Over the course of the seminar they looked at the issues and challenges raised, and what kinds of developments Goroka needed and how Oxford could work in collaboration with UOG to help.

“It’s just airing views and issues, chal-lenges in both context and looking for ways forward to develop teacher educa-tion in PNG hopefully,” Dr. Childs said.

The seminar discovered that there

was a need to do more research in Pap-ua New Guinea on Teacher Education and on Education.

Dr. Childs, who holds a PhD in Chem-istry and has worked with the Depart-ment of Education in Oxford for over 20 years, pointed out that the structure of the current course could be reviewed to see if it fits the purpose in current day PNG.

A lot of discussion was based on ways the current programme works and if it is working now for the current education system in the country.

Acting Dean of Education Dr. Sam Na-jike said the seminar was a very useful and informative one where Teacher Ed-ucation was put under the micro-scope.

“Even though this is collaboration with Oxford, we try to look at how we can improve in our Teacher Education,” Dr. Najike said.

“It is very crucial, very important we must always have input from others outside and elsewhere to improve our practice otherwise we are redundant.

“We cannot do much progress but we are assessing how we are doing things here.”

Dr. Najike said the seminar will help in designing programmes for UOG.

“It is the first time we are having people from outside looking at it (pro-grammes) and not necessarily telling us what to do but they give us a feedback on how to do things. Just ideas like that is very useful for our practice.

“There were a number of compari-sons done between UOG and Oxford and across the board theory and prac-tice, how courses are done and so fort. It was done in an environment where it was open discussion on just looking at how it is done.

“The main possible outcome is we have looked at some of our weak areas and we have looked at some of the areas/pathways that we can follow to address many of this concerns in teach-er education.”

In 2013 the Director of the Depart-ment Education and Dr. Childs came to UOG, as a result of initiative to work between the two universities.

The initial visit looked at what kind of collaboration could exist between The University Goroka and University of Oxford and a two-days workshop was held.

The result of this partnership includ-ed a visit to Oxford on May 2014 by a delegate of 20 members that included staff from UOG and other parts of the country.

The delegates spent two weeks of discussion on Teacher Education in PNG and Teacher Education in Oxford, and learn from each other about how to improve both universities Teacher Education.

From that trip it was resolved that four staff from Goroka join in a Masters in Teacher Education in Oxford. The staff joined in September 2014.

Teacher Education Glancing in on

Academics from UOG and University of Oxford had a lengthy discussion on developing Teacher Education in PNG.

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2016 Orientation and Registration in Pictures

Simon says listen ... School of Education staff listening attentively to Mr. Simon Wakei (right) as he stresses a point.

Chancellor’s address ... Chancellor Jo-seph Sukwianomb welcoming students during the Academic Year dedication.

Geared up for the year ... Students filled the Mark Solon Auditorium during the introduction of staff and students and the dedication ceremony of the Academic Year on February 21, 2016.

Welcome to Apo land ... The University of Goroka school bus picking up

students on arrival at the Goroka airport.

Giving the tick ... Student Welfare Division sorting out student registration.

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Payment time ... Students queuing at the Finance Division to settle their fees during the Registration week.

NBC Sniper ... Lae-based NBC journalist Charles Kekeng found this flower bed at the Look-Out a comfortable spot to shoot. He was on campus to cover the Academic Year dedication ceremony.

Scientists ... Science students completing their registration.Shake to beat ... Performers from RaunRaun Theatre providing some

entertainment.

Speak Up ... The Team from The Voice Inc. had a booth set for their clean generation awareness during the registration week.

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The University has recently established the new ICT Committee chaired by Mr. Kevin Me’e, and the new Media and Marketing Committee with Mr. Milan Boie as its chairman. Together with the arrival of a new ICT Manager Mr. Joseph Demiao, and his hard working deputy Mr. Russell Dekka and the rest of the ICT staff members, they have set them-selves some targets as follows:

1. 200 New Computers for Student Dormitory These new computers will be hooked onto The University of Goroka network together with other computers on campus that are yet to be connected. It is planned that these new computers will be located in nine different tutorial rooms in the student dormitories, so that students can access intranet once the backbone network infrastructure is completed.

2. Trial Wireless Internet Access for Students In the meantime, while waiting for the Telikom to install the complete Wi-Fi equipment, limited student Internet access will be made available for trial purposes at various locations around the campus, starting from March 16, us-ing a cloud based switching equipment as an alternative.

3. Email Accounts for Students New students in 2016 will be the first to be issued with email addresses using the cloud based Google Apps for Education starting March 14 onwards. This means that students can access their emails from anywhere in the world provided there is Internet access. This service will be extended to other stu-

dents later in the year.

4. Official Launching of the Re-developed UOG Website The date March 21 has been set as the target date for the launching of this re-developed website. The website will have a Staff Portal and a Student Portal, from which students can access our library resources from anywhere in the world. Before this can happen, Deans of Academic Departments will be asked to submit profile of each and every academic staff member, and provide a description of every diploma/degree program offered by their respective schools/institutes.

5. Automation of Student Records Finally but not the least. We have recently purchased the Open School software costing not more than K3,000. The automation of student records will enable us to manage student records efficiently, provide data security, and improve accessibility of student records to staff and students. Moreover, in the future (possibly starting second semes-ter this year) our students will be able to apply or register online, and access student records online.

In making these above announce-ments, the management wishes to hereby request everyone to respect, value, and take ownership of these very expensive ICT equipment now being deployed around the campus.

In the past, several computer accesso-ries went missing or cables were cut in our computer laboratories.

We hope that this will not be re-peated, and our new ICT equipment will continue to be used for academic purposes for other staff and students in the years to come.

Management keen to boost UOG ICT

Mr. Mathias Sully

Mr. Mathias Sully, M.Edu Leadership (DWU), B.Ed (UOG) is a PhD Student at The University of Goroka under the School of Post Graduate Studies.

He was the Principal of Madang Teachers College (MTC), an affiliat-ed institution of The University of Goroka, for the past four years before being accepted to further his studies. He has 27 years of teaching experi-ence in Primary Schools and MTC.

From the remote Wom village in Angoram District, East Sepik Prov-ince, he graduated with a Certificate in Primary Teaching in 1988 and spent his teaching career in East Sepik, Northern (Oro) and Madang Provinces. In 2001 he graduated with a Diploma in Education (In-service) at PNGEI and went on to do his Bachelors Degree in Education at The University of Goroka the following year. In 2004, MTC accepted him as a Lecturer in the Professional Studies Department.

Given his natural abilities and desire for growth, he was made a Senior Lecturer at Madang Teachers College in 2005 and made his way up the ladder. Given his diverse expe-riences in the education industry in the country, he has developed a richer and greater understanding of the stark realities of education in Papua New Guinea. Despite losing his dad at the age of four, Mr. Sully has overcome all odds and excelled in his professional career.

Amid his busy teaching responsi-bilities, Mathias has never stopped up-skillling himself through training programmes relevant to his career.

ContactMr. Mathias Sully, c/-The University of Goroka, P.O. Box 1078, Goroka, EHP.Ph: 7993 5055 | 72228199

Profiles

Important Dates

lMarch 8-28The University Of Goroka Student Representative Council Election

l April 20The 19th UOG Graduation Ceremony. To be held at the Main Quadrangle.

The Steven Eka Library

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Email activated

Dr. Musawe Sinebare

Dr. Musawe Sinebare, PhD, M.Info Tech (Wollongong); M.Ed. (Birming-ham), and B.Ed (UPNG) had been the Secretary for Education Department in Papua New Guinea. He had been the Foundation Pro Vice-Chancellor (Administration) when he also served as acting Vice-Chancellor at the University of Goroka (2000 – 2004). He also served as Deputy Provincial Administrator of Eastern Provincial Administration (2005-2007), and Deputy Director (Research Management & Coordi-nation) at the National Research Institute (2008-2011).

He is a prolific writer and has pub-lished widely on the Curriculum and ICT matters and has contributed reg-ular commentaries on socio-political issues in the Sunday Chronicle and The National newspapers in Papua New Guinea. He is the author of Path to Success, Papua New Guinea: De-velopmental Strategies for Socio-Eco-nomic Empowerment and Principles and Practices of Papua New Guinea Leadership and PNG Vision 2050: A Critique for the Development of Papua New Guinea.

“Dr Sinebare is the Pro Chancellor and member of the University of Goroka Council as well as Member of the PNG University of Technology Council.

ContactDr Musawe Sinebare, P.O. Box 38, UNIVERSITY PO, NCD, PNG.

Tel: (+675) 326 0300 Fax: (+675) 3260213Mobile: (+675) 694 6284 or Digicel: (+675) 724 99344 Email: [email protected]

Profiles

For the first time at The University of Goroka, the ICT Department has creat-ed new student email accounts for its students.

The planned project is a phase in the Universities plans to cover the cam-pus with Wifi connection for staff and students.

The email accounts is powered by Google Apps for education in particular gmail. Logging into this account will be similar to logging into a gmail account, for those who have one.

The interim University Management has backed this long-overdue project in boosting student learning at the University.

Access First type in the web address www.gmail.com

UsernameStudents will use their student ID as their username exceptthat they should not include the letter ´s´ before their ID. For example ifJohn Smith’s ID number is s2016311000, then his login name will be simply [email protected].

PasswordThe default password is *password *. Once they login in they will be asked to change to their desired password.Their new password should not be less than 8 characters and not more than100 characters.

A successful change of password will lead them to a page that require theirconfirmation, they simply have to tick the portion for approval and theywill be brought to their email accounts.

Step 2. TYPE 172.16.255.4 & PRESS ENTER

Step 1. OPEN INTERNET EXPLORER

Step 3. CLICK LIBERTY OPAC

Step 4. START YOUR SEARCH

Students get new email accounts

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THE University of Goroka and the Eastern Highlands Family Voice Inc on Monday, January 18, signed an agreement to boost Gender and Social Development training at UOG.

The Memorandum of Agreement is a boost for the School of Education’s Strand of Social Development and Gender Studies.

The collaboration would enable the Social Development and Gender Studies students to access Projects Sites operated by Family Voice Inc to gain practical experience.

The MOA was signed by Family Voice Inc Director Mr. John Ericho and UOG acting Vice chancellor Dr. John Kola and was witnessed by Chairperson of the Eastern Highlands Family Voice Inc Sir Walter Nombe.

Mr. Ericho said PNG’s demography shows that the gender ratio is about equal which means 50% of the popula-

tion is comprised of women. However, he said the equality is alone in terms of gender equality considerations.

“The country has a huge responsi-bility to its people and in particular its women to engender a culture of gender sensitiveness and responsiveness in programme and project development to address this huge historical baggage we carry as a people,” Mr. Ericho said.

“Women comprise some 50% of the country’s population but are under-uti-lised.”

He said while the constitution pro-motes gender equality, the government machinery has not really taken on the challenge.

He said the policy environment was now regarded as “Gender Blind”.

Mr. Ericho said the market environ-ment is emerging for human resources requirement for gender sensitive and responsive programmes and plans.

Acting Vice Chancellor Dr. Kola said the University had a major restructure going on and this programme would be part of the restructure.

“We can build this to a programme that is strong, sustainable and is solid,” Dr. Kola said.

“People we graduate here must show the color of The University of Goroka. We must show that Papua New Guin-eans must create development in their own societies.

“As part of this exercise we are very serious in making sure our academic programmes are upgraded, reshaped to be able to meet the requirements of a proper well classed university.”

Acting Executive Dean of Education Dr. Sam Najike said Gender remains a critical development issue in PNG.

He quoted the 2013 UNDP Human Development Report saying Gender In-equality in PNG has led to a 61.7% loss in potential Human Development.

Agreement sealedEastern Highlands Family Voice Inc Director Mr. John Ericho (second left) and UOG acting Vice chancellor Dr. John Kola (right) signing the Memorandum of Agreement and was witnessed by the Chairperson of the Eastern Highlands Family Voice Inc Sir Walter Nombe and Ms. Rosa Sukurini.

Social Development and Gender Studies inks partnership

Nominations Open – March 8Nomination Close – March 11Screening of Nominations – March 14Candidates Number Given Out – March 16

Campaign Period – March 17-23Public Speech – March 24-25Election (Casting of votes) – March28Counting and Declaration – March 29-31

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL ELECTION DATES

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THE University of Goroka is setting a pathway for non-school leavers with a unique programme to be offered under the University’s Institute of Distance and Flexible Learning.

The programme is targeting students who have applied to The University of Goroka but have fell short of being admitted because of lower GPA.

These students now have a second chance of being selected to the Uni-versity under the Certificate in Tertiary Admission Studies.

The catch for this programme is upgrading students automatically has a spot in the University for the following academic year.

This programme is targeting students with a lower GPA of 1.75-2.4.

The programme begins in March 2016 and over 3600 students have already been identified to pioneer the programme.

Director of IDFL Mr. Kensol Rui said the programme was initiated because there was a massive population of school leavers applying to The Uni-versity of Goroka but the University could only cater for a portion of these prospecting students.

“As usual as we see in many institu-tions, only a little proportion of school leavers apply to institution as was the case here,” Mr. Rui said during the launching of the programme on Febru-ary 26.

“The institution can only get a limited number of people while the massive population were ineligible and could not come in.

“When we realised that, we came up with the idea of developing this partic-ular programme so we can give them a chance to come into this programme and upgrade.

“For those who do well in this programme, they can then be given a second opportunity to come back to the University to the programmes they applied for.

“In the big picture we realised that the university as a State institution can also participate with the government in addressing the population of people that are coming out. Not all of them get into universities but more or less we cater for this massive population.”

The duration of the programme de-pends on the number of subjects each student wish to upgrade. One subject is offered per semester.

Mr. Rui said there is a unique distinc-tion between The University of Goroka’s Certificate in Tertiary Admission Studies programme and the UPNG Open Col-lege and Unitech’s DODL programmes.

“The distinction is that this pro-gramme is targeting schools leavers non-eligible applicants to The Universi-ty of Goroka,” Mr. Rui said.

“That’s uniquely prepared to address this group who were rejected by this University because of lower GPA.

“The UPNG Open Campus and Unitech’s DODL programme is a pro-

gramme provided to all the Grade 12 leavers with low GPAs. “The other major distinction is with those programmes, the institutions don’t provide solid pathways for the up-graders.

“What makes us different is we as a University now have a quota for stu-dents upgrading in this programme.

“We give them preference using this quota, if they apply and fill that quota that’s it.

“That’s not what other institutions do with matriculation programmes. They only upgrade and let the up-graders find their own way to institutions.

For a start, the programme will be offered in Goroka, and the IDFL centres in Mt. Hagen and the National Capital District.

There are 3,667 school leavers from 2014 and 2015 identified to head this programme. The shortlisted students names will be published in the print media on a later date.

Mr. Rui said they got more indication of students in Lae, Rabaul and Wewak so they will strategise and send out staff to do enrollments in those provinces.

Students under this programme will be eligible to apply to other universities and colleges.

“I feel appreciative with my own staff who have committed so much into it,” Mr. Rui said.

He thanked the academic staff of UOG, the Deans of Schools and the Top Management Team for supporting the programme.

The acting Vice Chancellor Professor John Kola was on hand to officially launch the new course.

A Unique Opportunity

What makes us different is we now have a quota for students upgrading in this programme.

- Kensol Rui - Director IDFL

IDFL programme targets students interested in UOG

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Creating the Future

THE interim chancellor of The University of Goroka Joseph Sukwi-anomb is pleased to have brought the university back to its normal operations, completing the academ-ic year on high note.

Students have completed their academic year by November 30 and the university has closed operations on December 18. The 2016 academic year began on January 4.

Sukwianomb, who heads the UOG Council, was appointed by the Min-ister for Higher Education, Research Science and Technology Malakai Tabar to rescue the academic year after the students had gone on strike for nearly two months.

The interim council then appointed Dr. John Kola, a Chemistry lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, as interim Vice Chancellor to salvage the second semester.

Sukwianomb said to the great relief of all stakeholders, the Government, the Minister and most importantly the parents, the interim administration has done a splendid job in not only saving the University but bringing back confidence to this State owned institution.

“The students have returned back to there communities and we are

very happy,” Sukwianomb said. “The semester has been completed suc-cessfully on Nov. 30 and the university proceeding to plan for the academic year 2016.

“The Council has also made some very important decision in securing The University of Goroka and to make sure that stability is returned and we have sustained that now.

“We have brought the university back to its original state by virtue of normalcy being returned and we have had to take some decisions to ensure we sustain the job we have to do as the Council.”

He said the Univer-sity Council has made some decisions to those who hold contracts to perform some duties at the University and has given support to the Vice Chancellor to deal with those who do not comply with the directions of the Government and the Minister through the interim-council.

“Some of the decisions we have to deal with in terms of staff discipline statues have been dealt with.”

Chancellor satisfied with closure of 2015 Academic Year

Chancellor Joseph Sukwianomb

The Communication & Marketing Team

ICT Committee

Isaiah Igish Communication & Marketing Officer

Kevin Me’e Chairman – ICT Committee

Joseph Demiao ICT Manager

Junior Taomba Web-Master

Milan Boie Chairman – Media & Marketing Committee