Papua New Guinea Government pours K500mil into universities

The Papua New Guinea Government is pouring K500 million (US$222 million) into universities to roll out and upgrade programmes for increased intakes of students coming off secondary schools, Higher Education, Science and Research Technology Minister David Arore said yesterday.
Arore, who was given back his ministry yesterday after he voluntarily stepped down to clear his name, said the Government was looking at alleviating the bottleneck that had been imposed by the introduction of its own free education policy.
He said the primary and secondary schools had increased the number of students as a result of the Government’s free education policy but the spaces in tertiary institutions in PNG was very small.
The good news, he said, was that the Government had decided to correct that deficiency by increasing funding to tertiary institutions in PNG. Read more...