Student Boycotts Are Reasonable Responses To Decades Long Government Coverups On How Bad PNG School have Become
By CONCERNED PARENT Those who have studied overseas know in an instant how bad our PNG schools are, all the way to university level. An article in PNG Blogs some time back ( http://www.pngblogs.com/2014/07/how-bad-are-papua-new-guineas.html ) revealed it in black and white rankings. Our best PNG university, Divine Word, is worse than the best university in the failed state of Somalia. Every time politicians speak at commencements they promise schools something that almost always is never delivered. Parents in rural areas cry for new classrooms but say nothing about teachers to teach the children, or books that allow children to learn more than their teachers. This year we have already seen a boycott by UNRE (former Vudal College) students over mismanagement at that institution. UNRE is one of the worst ranked universities in the world. Now we have a student strike at Polytech in Lae. In all cases, the core issue is bad education. The source o