By FRANK RAI
THE Bulolo Joint District Planning and Budget Priority Committee (JDP&BPC) has paid K60,000 on Monday as school fee subsidy for trainee teachers from Bulolo District attending Balob Teachers College in Lae. The fees were paid for 30 students who had been undertaking teacher training under a special arrangement between the school and Bulolo District. The arrangement was to have selected Bulolo students from the rural areas taking up teacher training under the sponsorship of the district and go back to teach in their remote villages. While presenting the cheque to school principal Jerry Hendigau, Bulolo MP and Minister for National Planning and Monitoring Sam Basil said schools in the vast remote areas of the district were in dire need of teachers. “Most of the teachers in the remote schools have fled and there are no teachers.
THE Bulolo Joint District Planning and Budget Priority Committee (JDP&BPC) has paid K60,000 on Monday as school fee subsidy for trainee teachers from Bulolo District attending Balob Teachers College in Lae. The fees were paid for 30 students who had been undertaking teacher training under a special arrangement between the school and Bulolo District. The arrangement was to have selected Bulolo students from the rural areas taking up teacher training under the sponsorship of the district and go back to teach in their remote villages. While presenting the cheque to school principal Jerry Hendigau, Bulolo MP and Minister for National Planning and Monitoring Sam Basil said schools in the vast remote areas of the district were in dire need of teachers. “Most of the teachers in the remote schools have fled and there are no teachers.
“That is the reason why the Bulolo JDP&BPC has come up with the initiative to sponsor students at Balob Teachers College so that after graduating, they would return to their areas and teach,” Mr Basil said. The local MP said areas like Wafi, Yanta, Biaru, Waria, Garina and some parts of Watut needed teachers and the Bulolo JDP&BPC has to take out students from those areas and send them to Balob for teacher training. Mr Basil said the teacher training program arrangement with Balob Teachers College would be incorporated into the Bulolo District five-year development plan so that there were students coming in every year. “I want to thank the college for allowing the students to undertake teacher training and furthermore request if the number for Bulolo student intake could increase,” Mr Basil said.
Meanwhile, college principal Mr Hendigau commended Mr Basil for the timely sponsorship and stressed that human resource sector was an important sector in the country. He said when there was an educated population in a country, there would be smooth flow of tangible service delivery. The principal said the sponsorship of students was a right direction Bulolo District had taken and should be sustained in the years to come.
What the member for Bulolo and minister for Planning Hon Sam Basil and his JDP&BC are doing is the way forward for human resorce development in their district.
ReplyDeleteThis is the typical example every other remote districts of Morobe should also do.
TewaiSiassi district is one such that needs to get its acts together by the sitting MP and the JDP&BC must do.