Gr 10-12s yet to get certificates

By GRACE AUKA
STUDENTS who completed grades 10 and 12 last year have not received their certificates.
Instead, they were issued temporary statements of results which will remain valid until the end of this month.
Education director of measurement services branch Greg Kapanombo attributed the delay to problems associated with the education secretary’s signature.
“The certificates have been reprinted and will be delivered to the measurement services branch once payment is made to the Government Printing Office,” he told the department’s southern regional consultative meeting in Port Moresby yesterday.
Kapanombo said there had been very little money allocated for the national examinations and the first steps in preparing for the examinations had not started.
He was reporting on last year’s national examinations and certification in a meeting attended by the provincial education advisers
from all regions
of the country.
“It is becoming very critical and this will affect the accuracy, validity and security of the examinations if we try to squeeze our timing,” Kapanombo said.
The meeting would also discuss plans and develop better targets for government and donor funding to improve infrastructure from the primary up to vocational schools across Papua New Guinea.
The meeting will end today with the launching of the education in emergency policy.