Software engineering

A SOFTWARE engineering college is a definite need for PNG’s young generation.
We are not planning for the future generations to fully utilise and maximise the human resource.
We should not graduate people with jobs that are more to do with resource exploitation and business because these are only going to utilise money that is already circulating within the country.
Instead, we should train our young generation to create something new out of nowhere from their own creativity and sell it to the world to buy.
In this way we bring money into the country without using our natural resources.
In Unitech, they are offering computer science courses but they are only for high level languages like Java and Python where it would be hard to produce the next Bill Gates.
On the other hand, the electrical engineering students are getting low-level languages only for electrical applications in circuit and electronics.
But we need to teach our young generation to code because the earlier the better when their minds are still fresh.
All they need is a laptop, specific tutor and some internet with enough bandwidth for research purposes only.
My recommendation is that we should have at least four software and computer engineering colleges in the four regions where grade 8 and 10 school leavers will study to acquire the skills mentioned above.

Clayton Manda Kua
Unitech Livewire
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