Papua New Guinea University of Technology

Unitech’s Student Representative Senate (SRS) pointed out that construction was scheduled to be completed by September 2022. However, the project, which was supposed to take eight months to complete, has come to a halt following in-house issues with the contractor, Regional Engineering and Construction Ltd.

With no proper dialogue between the students and administration, the Student Representative Senate shut down the school mess on Monday, April 10^th, appealing to the senior executive management team to be transparent and tell them what is going on.

During his visit, Minister Ling-Stuckey met with the University’s senior executive management team to discuss budgetary matters of the institution and do a budgetary presentation.

The university management also had the opportunity to discuss its five-year strategic plans and present a report on its infrastructural plans and budgetary requirements in alignment to the University’s vision and mission.

Minister Ling-Stuckey announced a funding commitment of K250,000 on behalf of the Marape-Basil Government at the end of the meeting.

However they have clarified that should he choose to remain in the country that decision is entirely up to him.

Dr Shram however will not be entitled to any further benefits from the University except his severance package.

The University in a statement says the their Administration has served Dr Schram details of his repatriation arrangements which includes airline tickets to the last place he was, when recruited by Unitech.