Fode inviting new graduates to apply for vacancies

THE flexible open and distance education (Fode) programme will increase its enrollment for this year and is inviting more graduates to apply for teaching vacancies in the country.
Fode principal Anthony Rayappan told The National that the programme had 47 teaching vacancies around the country.
“We are encouraging those new teaching graduates with bachelor’s degrees to apply to fill this 47 spaces because we will increase the enrollment by 30 per cent to 40 per cent this year,” he said.
Rayappan said university graduates with or without teaching experience could apply to the Fode headquarters in Port Moresby.
“He or she must be a recent graduate with a bachelor’s degree in education and have a teaching qualification, if you have work experience that’s fine,” he said.
“We need teachers in Fode because the numbers are growing every year.
“Last year 54,000 students enrolled in Fode and this year, that figure might increase by 30 per cent (16,200) to 40 per cent (21,600).”
That would mean 70,000 to 75,000 enrollments.
Rayappan said Fode had 25 teachers at their headquarters and 108 in other Fode centres in the provinces.
He said teachers who wished to apply could send their applications to the headquarters and once accepted, would then be posted to centres. “We are very positive as the Government and the Education Department is embarking on Fode being rolled out in all the provinces so we are rolling it out to secondary schools in provinces this year,” he said.
Rayappan said Fode had started in 10 secondary schools in Southern Highlands, and would continue to Madang and the rest of the country.