{"id":23140,"date":"2019-10-01T10:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=23140"},"modified":"2019-10-01T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:18:48","slug":"papua-new-guineas-educ-system-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/papua-new-guineas-educ-system-revamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea's education system needs revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Papua New Guinea has shown tremendous commitment towards reforming its education system. One of the focus areas is teaching quality.<\/b>
\nAccording to the World Bank, teacher effectiveness ought to be regarded as the most fundamental school-based estimator of student learning.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNevertheless, Papua New Guinea has shown some laxity in this area based on the absence of a precise roadmap, as well as funding for teachers\u2019 upskilling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Papua New Guinea\u2019s TFF<\/b><\/h2>\n

Papua New Guinea established the <\/b>Tuition Fee Free (TFF)<\/b><\/a> policy in 2012<\/b>. Notably, this acted as the nation\u2019s fourth attempt to offer free education. Initially, TFF was meant to reduce families\u2019 financial burdens.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThings have, however, not worked quite well because its implementation has varied considerably between provinces.<\/span>
\nAdditionally, the TFF policy has been enshrined in contradictory strategies. For instance, financial management involved has prompted inefficiencies and confusion.\u00a0<\/b>
\nOne of the main objectives of the TFF policy was to reduce the costs endured by Papua New Guinea\u2019s households. Nevertheless, this goal has been hindered by the lack of full subsidy payments. This has made parents to, at times, provide additional funds.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIn 2016, the subsidy got separated into three parts, namely learning, teaching, and cash administration components.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nDespite this approach, only the administration element was availed to schools as the other two were directed to the provincial government. The poor management thriving in schools instigated this turnaround.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Papua New Guinea\u2019s focus on teacher quality<\/b><\/h2>\n

The government of Papua New Guinea has shown various commitments to elevate teacher quality.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>For instance, between 2016 and 2018, about 3685 teachers were partially trained across 14 provinces, whereby they attained an elementary certificate.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThese efforts have been prompted by the nation\u2019s objective of prompting large-scale developments to teaching outcomes. Nevertheless, this goal has been hindered by some challenges, such as some elementary teachers being unpaid.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe present education system in Papua New Guinea is called 3-6-4, whereby three (3) years are covered in elementary, six (6) years in primary, and four (4) years in secondary school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
\nOn the other hand, <\/span>Australia has been facing the <\/span>difficulty of how schools will retain good teachers<\/span><\/a>, especially early career ones.\u00a0<\/span>
\nStatistics show that nearly fifty percent (50%) of teachers, usually abscond their careers after five (5) years of graduating. As a result, it has emerged to be a critical issue that has necessitated amicable solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Papua New Guinea has shown tremendous commitment towards reforming its education system. One of the focus areas is teaching quality. According to the World Bank, teacher effectiveness ought to be regarded as the most fundamental school-based estimator of student learning.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Papua New Guinea has shown some laxity in this area based on the absence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}