Department of Education

Out of 63,000 Grade 10 students from 263 provincial high and secondary schools nationwide, about 25 000 are eligible to continue to Year 11 in 2017.

These include about 15,191 males and 9,731 females.

This was confirmed by the Department of Education (DoE) following the one week selection exercise done by principals and guidance teachers from schools all over the country.

DoE revealed that few provinces are graduating more Grade 10 students with good marks but they’re not able to select everyone due to the limited number of secondary schools in the province.

This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today between the Minister for Education and the NCD Governor in Port Moresby.

The signing officially begins the work of transferring the powers and functions under the NCD Education Service Division in the Department of Education to the NCDC.

DoE will only be responsible for determining national policies and standards while NCDC will now take responsibility of all registered elementary, primary, secondary and vocational schools in the city.