Quality of education at UPNG raising queries

HIGHER Education Minister Pila Niningi says the quality of education at the University of Papua New Guinea is being seriously compromised.
He was responding to questions from Rabaul MP Dr Allan Marat about the complaints from students that the performance of lecturers was poor – not attending lectures, marking papers with prejudice and not keeping records of gradings.
“This has resulted in a number of students missing from the graduation list,” he said
“Some of them have been asked to pay K600 to be included in the graduation list.
“It raises a lot of questions in relation to the quality of education, and creates an impression that you can pay K600 before your name gets placed on the graduation list.
“Some students who merit graduation are not graduating. Some who do not merit graduation are graduating.”
Marat asked Niningi to explain what was going on at the University of Papua New Guinea.
Niningi admitted that there was a “big problem” on campus.
“I cannot cover up. Selections (of students) are done online,” Niningi said.
“All the faculties have accepted the selections that we did, with only the School of Business not accepting this, and selected their own students outside of the selection process.
“Students that they selected were eligible to go and attend technical colleges.”