Ninety Australia Awards Scholarship awardees from across Papua New Guinea have gathered in Port Moresby to prepare for their studies in Australia next year.
The awardees will be attending a three-week pre-departure workshop designed to maximise opportunities for awardees to succeed in their studies.
These awards represent the continuing commitment by the Governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia to build human capacity in Papua New Guinea through investment in education.
The awardees, drawn from the public, private and civil society sectors, all have plans to contribute to Papua New Guinea upon graduation.
The areas of focus for graduates centre in the priority sectors of education, health, governance, law and justice, transport and infrastructure or agriculture.
Fuchsia Hepworth, from the Australian High Commission said, “When you graduate you will be joining a distinguished and influential group of Papua New Guineans who share your link to Australia – through education as well as development in this country”.