No resources for new curriculum

IN the new standard base curriculum (SBC) syllabus, we are confronted with a subject called technology and industrial arts containing five strands – textile technology, food technology, construction technology, communication technology and computer technology
The problems associated with the introduction of technology and industrial arts are so many.
One teacher is never trained in all the above fields of study.
We need three different teachers to teach this one subject.
The special classrooms/workshops fitted with the correct equipment and tools are not available in all schools in Papua New Guinea.
A huge sum of money is needed for the equipment, tools and concrete learning aids.
Some schools are located in very remote part of the country and do not have access to electricity.
There are so many associated problems that are beyond the things I have mentioned.
Can senior officers from the curriculum development section and the staff development section of the Education Department visit selected schools and see the conditions?
Their choice of schools should include all our four regions, urban and rural, new and old, secondary and high and government and other agency schools.
Only then, you will realise how well the brand new SBC syllabus will be implemented.

Petroza Poko,
Chalk Dust for 27 years