Human resource

Willie Douglas, owner of Tauvoria Ltd have been awarding top Grade eight students of schools with K500 cash in the Hoskins Local Level Government in Nakanai district.

Currently, 17 schools have benefitted from the award since 2018.

“I want to help the future human resource of Nakanai and also improve the academic performance in Hoskins LLG.

“Many elites of Nakanai have passed away and no replacements to take their place. Therefore I took up this initiative to help our students.”

Morobe Province’s only female Early Childhood Education (ECE) mentor, Esther Anonga, appealed to the government to invest in the upskilling and inservice of teachers.

“Teachers must know the curriculum before they teach,” she stated.

“Without curriculum, I don’t think people will know the right thing to do and they must understand how to utilise it, the skills and strategies, the concepts and ideas especially.

“Teachers must be trained. Our government of the day should provide support so teachers will be well-trained so that they may know the curriculum well.

This much-needed training will be rolled out following the launching of the HR Business Process in Lae today at the Okari Campus.

Morobe will be the pilot province for this program, which aims to upskill and enhance the effectiveness of human resource officers within the public sector.

Department of Personnel Management Secretary, Taies Sansan, highlighted that this program will address the number of issues arising from simple HR activities like selection and recruitment, giving advice on contracts and contract management and facilitating leave fares.

For Pukari, a remote community in Gulf Province, human resource is an issue.

The blame may fall back to Pukari Primary School, but there are many other external contributing factors.

Shedding light and expressing concern was the current headmaster Erevai Toere.

The school has 297 students from grades 3 to 8. There are 80 students in each class, and only 6 teachers to cater for them.

On average, less than 10 students pass on to do Grade 9, either at the Kerema Coronation Secondary School or Malalaua High School.