How Bad Are Papua New Guinea’s Universities? Awful Beyond Belief and Still Declining!
By OHE Insider Recent public statements by UPNG SRC President and law student Bobby Yupi show a tragic lack of intellectualism and overall knowledge about the world outside of PNG that now generally characterises PNG’s university students. The decline in how PNG university students as a whole think and reason is a simple reflection of the bad education they receive. How Bad Is the Education That PNG’s University Students Now Receive? PNG’s colleges and universities deliver a horribly low quality of education to the future leaders of this country. Because students are ignorant of what an excellent learning environment would display, they usually say nothing and quietly take what’s thrown at them in the pretence of education. Professors don’t bother to show up to class. University academics lead by example by teaching in tok pisin, writing down as little as possible, and plagiarising the writings and ideas of foreign academics as if these came from their own brains. Stud