Students complain
THE University of Papua New Guinea is the premier university in the Pacific but its way back in all its conducts and dealings.
The IT department has allegedly failed many students in the five schools within the university.
Some students have scored high distinction, distinction, credit, pass or conceded pass on some courses they took but on their transcript it was recorded fail.
Students worked hard to get those grades but their efforts were allegedly wiped out by this error.
We did not work day in and day out to get fails.
Most students who should have been on the HECAS or AES are on self-sponsorship allegedly due to that.
The marks have been submitted to the Department of Higher Education and Research, Science and Technology (DHERST) office and the scholarship list for continuing students is out.
Even if we follow up to fix our grades with the IT department or at our respective school, it would be late for students to make it on the TESAS list.
Parents and guidance should understand that if their children are on self-sponsor, it may not be their children’s fault. The fault may be with the university’s IT department.
Students can work hard but it would take seconds to fail us.
Imagine the privileges and benefits of scholarship that eligible students would miss out.
For example, if a student is on HECAS, the government will pay K4,600 and if on AES, it increases up to K5,700.
Now the weight is on parents, guardians and the students.
Students need good marks on their transcripts to seek other scholarships.
For example, the tertiary students from Western usually receive sponsorship from the OK Tedi Development Funds Programme.
The condition is that a student should have a GPA of 2.8 and above for them to be on 50 per cent scholarship and have of GPA of 3.5 and above for full scholarship.
We don’t know how many Western students from UPNG will be on that scholarship.
The alleged displacement of the students’ marks are costing their lives.
The management of the University of Papua New Guinea should do something about that.
Don’t tell us to switch to the new HELP programme that the government recently introduced.
Ipa Igisii
Fractured second year Accounting student.
2 comments
For me personally I call UPNG a settlement or a big secondary school. Everything in UPNG is second class. Why PNGeans, we can’t manage our own affairs well and eloquently, we are definitely proud of nothing. Instead of progressing, we are regressing. Come on UPNG lift your image and live up to standard.
That alleged conduct by the UPNG IT Department paints a bad picture to the famous signboard ” The premier University of Papua New Guinea”. IT specialists there are very much incompetent in carrying out their assigned responsibilities despite students’ tireless efforts to score better grades with the main aim of getting themselves into either Hecas or AES. That is really bad.It is really a wake up call now. The Top Management team At UPNG must strictly look into this problem.
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