Discussions on educational autonomy

BY ALOYSIUS LAUKAI

Delegates from the National Department of Education have arrived in Buka to meet with the Bougainville Education Administration to discuss the drawdown of education and teaching service commission powers to ABG in accordance with the Bougainville Constitution.

The Port Moresby team comprised Deputy Secretary for Education Policy, Luke Taita, Deputy Secretary for Education Teaching/Learning, Damien Rapese, two departmental lawyers Alex Haboic and Joel Minsipi Nawa, and the Teaching Service Commission Regional Advisor (NGI) Tony Tsora.

The team mainly consists of Bougainvilleans and will meet with the Bougainville delegation to identify powers and functions of education available to Bougainville and to discuss the future education structure for the ABG, that will become fully autonomous from the PNG Education system under the Bougainville Autonomous arrangement.

Comments

[Maria Buka Meri]

Maybe some thoughts to ponder before discussing the future education structure for the ABG......

"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
-- Source Unknown

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
-- Anne Sullivan

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
-- Sir Claus Moser

[Paul]

This is good news for the Autonomy of Bougainville because Education is central the the development and growth of a community or nation. Hopefully some of the long term leaders in Education in Bougainville will be natural choices to lead the Education Department of the ABG.
I also hope that Teachers and schools are given the respect they deserve from all members of the community. That includes safety in freedom on the roads and also that teachers and others are given a just pay, and on time.