IBS gets K4mil to build learning facilities in Enga

 THE Enga provincial government will give K4 million this year to the Institute of Business Studies (IBS) in Enga Campus.

It is to develop its learning facilities, Governor Peter Ipatas said.

He opened the school’s second information technology laboratory last Thursday.

Ipatas said the provincial government allocated K2 million last year to start the campus as he considered degree programmes in accounting and information technology that the school offered to be important to students in the province.

“My government has invited IBS to establish in Enga because it is known for offering world standard IT and accounting courses in collaboration with the Southern Cross University of Australia,” he said. 

“We are putting in a lot of money to fulfil our partnership commitment with the school because that is an investment that will pay back millions of kina in the long run.”

He said the provincial government would also buy a new 25-seater bus for the school to transport day students.

IT lecturer Rajendran Bhojan told Ipatas that because IT was dominating the world, it would be a move in the right direction for Enga to adopt it as part of the teaching curriculum in primary schools.

“We started with desktop computers 10 years ago and just recently we were presented with laptops and now iPads, Notebooks and smart phones,” he 

said.

“And when our children are operating mobile device with internet in it, we have a role to play in educating IT properly to our future generation.”

The IBC Enga campus, located with the Enga Teachers’ College, has 220 students.