Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET)

Speaking at the cheque presentation on Thursday at the Caritas Girls Secondary School in Port Moresby, NCD Governor Powes Parkop said since its inception in 2008, NCD TVET and school-fee assistance program has relieved many disadvantaged guardians, parents and their children in tertiary institutions.

Parkop said more than K40 million has been invested in the program, benefitting over 35,000 students since.

He added that today, some 1001 students were the proud recipient of subsidy.

The program complements the National Government’s Tuition Fee Free policy.

The contract is between the European Union, Department of National Planning and Monitoring and contractors.

The contract signing paves the way for construction company Rhodes PNG and Atlas Steel PNG to commence construction on various school projects, including teachers’ houses.

The Education Department’s First Assistant Secretary for Policy and Research Wing, Peter Kants, says SLIP, which came into existence in 2006, can be easily implemented as it does not require a lot of resources, but needs effective leadership to move it forward.

During a consultative forum with principals and governing councils’ chairpersons on August 14, held at the National Polytechnic Institute, Morobe Province, Kants explained that the SLIP program was borne in 2006 after a review was undertaken on school teaching and learning environment and management.