Time is everything

Letters

THE heat is on as the academic year begins for primary, secondary schools, colleges and universities.
The longing to see whether students will continue their education or not. As time goes by, some students may be fortunate while others maybe not.
Exam results have decided whether students will continue their studies or not.
As a non-school leaver who is now a second–year student at a teacher training college, time has a lot to do with the purpose of me being at a college.
I walked a thousand miles upgrading results, experiencing a lot of different things in like any other non-school leaver.
It is with only time that paved the way forward to where I am now.
From my experience, a lot of this has to do with time.
A shortfall in time has had a greater impact for learners as early childhood learning having most students that have not mastered reading and writing as well as speaking fluent English.
I am sure that this is happening in almost all colleges and universities around the country.
Students in remote schools need proper time management and effective planning and teaching approach from teachers as they move on in life.
When it comes to exams, it makes no sense to determine someone’s future based on the result.
The motivating part of being a school drop-out is it encourages students to climb higher through experience, no matter what the level of education.
Papua New Guinea is a developing nation has a rapidly growing population with youths struggling.
Believe me, nothing will change if the struggles continue to throw youths on the street.
Life is not the same for everyone.
If you have been in such a situation, you would have considered what it takes to be the difference between a unsuccessful non-school leaver and a recent school leaver.
Another thing is the number of those who fail is higher compared to these continuing.
Considering these, should we not look into education system and change it?
Give equal opportunity to everyone no matter what and how long they have been on non-school leaver.
Past non-school leavers have learnt a lot whilst being out of school.
Getting our hands-on experience out of school is something to be considered in our education system for a much more advanced PNG.
How will PNG be in the next decade with our rapidly growing youth still looking for a place in life if such a system keeps going?
If I am or not being biased here, maybe with the recent approach of introducing the online selection system (OSS) for students to enter universities and colleges would be a great concept for the Education Department to eradicate those who have been manipulating the system. As a patriot, and one of those many struggles over time, a youth of this great developing nation, let me say the youth of today will be the producers of the future developed and the advancement of this nation.
To every successful person, be committed and start simple but remember that only those who are willing to risk pushing the boundaries will find out how far one can go in PNG’s education system.

Harrison Yamani,
PS Kuam 37 (RMTC Yr.2)