Centre collecting K100 fee for entry tests

THE Morobe flexible, open and distance education (Fode) centre in Lae, is collecting K100 registration fee to pay for pre-enrolment tests and student identification cards.
Provincial Fode coordinator Nemica Jacob said the tests would be for full correspondence students doing grade nine and 11.
“The registration fee is for student ID photos and pre-enrolment tests,” she said.
“The test is not to fail or pass students, but to see their strengths and weaknesses.”
The centre’s registration was opened last November with enrolment starting on Jan 18.
Jacob said they had registered more than 100 students and were continuing registration, with more parents going to the centre with their children.
“Due to high number of students and long queues, we gave the registration forms to students to fill in and bring back, which we don’t normally do,” Jacob said. Jacob is pushing for other primary, secondary or vocational centres in the province to establish study centres with supervisors in the districts to share the large number of students who are flocking to the centre in Lae.
She said all grade eight school leavers would do grade nine.
“The grade 10 school leavers with passes and upper passes will continue to grade 11 and those with a fail grade will have to upgrade that subject,” he said.
The centre is a correspondence study centre under national Fode.