No room at the top

THIS week Education Minister Nick Kuman bluntly told us that there’s hardly any space in tertiary institutions for 50,000 grade 12s to move up to this year.
The question is why?
Did the government know that we had students who were doing grade 12 this year?
Did the government take any drastic measures to increase the number of spaces at tertiary institutions since the issue is an ongoing problem in the country?
I suppose the government was into deep slumber on the issue and just woke up to see that 72,000 grade 12s were sitting their national examinations this year.
The government’s ill preparedness led to Kuman releasing the dumbest of announcements.
Did the government build some more tertiary institutions while seeing the need for more enrolment needs?
Or was it only sleeping at it?
Hard working garde 12s are walking the streets year in and year out even though they are meritoriously sound.
Is this trend going to come to an end or will it forever infringe on the rights of our future leaders of this nation?
Why are we building more secondary schools when we know there is no room above that?
As parents can we blindly go ahead and pay the forever-rising school fees knowing very well that there’s a bottleneck in the education system.
How can we waste our scarce resources already knowing the existing trend in the education of our children?
Why waste K40 million to purchase the expensive Maserati’s that will only benefit a few rich nations at our expense?
Instead should the government use that money to build a world class university that can benefit us?
We’re only reading about LNG shipments but where are the real benefits?
Can we use our earnings to build as many tertiary institutions in the country as we can?
How about the much talked about tax credit scheme? We have many mining and petroleum companies extracting our resources.
Well can some of those companies embark on building universities or other technical tertiary institutions?
As far as I’m concerned these schemes haven’t done enough!
Thanks to Oil Search for the state-of-the-art National Football Stadium.

Kopun Kondolka Ngal JK
Jiwaka