School inspectors receive training on pay slip app

FIFTEEN senior provincial primary school inspectors have attended a one-day workshop on the My Pay Slip Web application in Port Moresby yesterday.
The application was recently launched by the Education Minister Joseph Yopyyopy in East Sepik on Monday; the application would allow teachers, who registered, to access their pay slips online through their smartphone.
Education Department acting first assistant secretary for corporate services Andrew Angobe said they were the first department to have an application where staff and teachers could access their pay slips online.
Angobe said previously teacher’s pay slips used to be manually produced and was a time consuming and expensive exercise for the department but the application had made the process cheaper and convenient.
He said the department aimed to register the 60,000-plus teachers in the country so they could individually have access to their pay slips.
Angobe said senior inspectors from all provinces were invited to attend the awareness workshop, however, only 15 attended.
“These senior primary school inspectors will go back and train other inspectors of various levels of education (elementary, primary, secondary and Tvet ) and teachers college lectures in the provinces so they can then go to schools and register teachers,” he said.
Angobe said the provinces that did not have any representatives at the workshop were Bougainville, Manus, Gulf, Central, West New Britain and Western; officers from these provinces could go to the nearest province to be updated, or if time and funding permitted they could come to the Education Department for training.
He said pay slips would be backdated to January this year so teachers could view them dating back to the start of the year.
Angobe said, to register, teachers needed to have their file number, an email address, mobile number and an ID photo which would be taken during the registration.