Board wants students to work in logging industry

AITAPE-Lumi board of trustees representative Linda Hambrua says students from the district who graduated from the Mapex Training Institute (MTI) will go back to work in the logging industry.
Hambrua told The National that the district board of trustees under the Forest Management Authority had sponsored eight students to study at MTI.
She said the students would work in logging operations in the district.
“Under the Forest Management Authority, there are logging operations going on.” Hambrua said only five students had enrolled and graduated.
The other three will enrol in the next intake, she said.
“The other three did not make it because of the remoteness and isolation of the district so they could not be reached to be informed that they were sponsored to study at MTI.”
The five students who graduated received certificates in operating excavators, semi-trailers and dump trucks.
She said the students were from the village who had completed grades 10 and 12 but did not make it to tertiary institutions.