Province can give dropouts second chance with 30 new schools

WESTERN Highlands now has 30 new high schools which will cater for students passing out from primary schools in the province, provincial education adviser Lawrence Pena says.
Pena attended the parents and students day at the new Hagen North High School in the Dei electorate. He said only four of those high schools were yet to be registered and they were working to get them all registered.
He said Governor Paias Wingti’s vision was to make sure there was no grade 10 dropouts in the province.
The number of schools can give dropouts a second chance, he said.
Pena thanked Muglamp local level government president John Balg Wamp for taking the initiative to build this new high school using his own labour, resources and time.
He said this was the kind of support the government needed to make its policies and plans work out.
“The provincial government will work to help and provide the logistics to make sure that Hagen North as a new high school in the province will commence proper classes,” Pena said.
He said Dei electorate alone has seven high schools.
This year 146 grade 10s will sit for their national examinations.
Wamp thanked Pena, provincial education planner Joseph Mangbil and the provincial government for paying a visit to the school and providing K50,000 for the school’s development.