Western launches Fode school

By JINA AMBA
THE main aim of the flexible open and distance education (Fode) office is to help school leavers so that no one is left behind, an official says.
Western’s Fode coordinator Kelly Inkharm said this during the launch of Pirupiru Fode High School in the province recently.
He said the goal was to “help unfortunate school leavers” and to align with the Papua New Guinea’s education theme of having a literate population and of leaving no one behind.
Inkharm said Fode had the same power as mainstream schools in PNG.
He said Fode could be established in the rural areas where high schools and secondary schools were not present.
Inkharm said students who completed Fode studies could enter any tertiary institutions in the country.
He said the Daru Fode centre had produced 12 grade 10 students this year who were now doing grade 11 in Daru Secondary School.
Two primary school teachers who studied through Fode in Daru were accepted to further their education at the PNG Education Institute in Port Moresby, while another was at the Vaifa School of Nursing.
Inkharm planted a coconut during the launch of the Pirupiru Fode High School and said it symbolised the province’s capacity for growth and the establishment of the Fode study centre.
He said the aim was to ensure more people, especially school leavers from the Bamu area of Middle Fly, were given an opportunity to continue and complete their education.
Inkharm said those who benefited from the centre could then work as teachers, health workers and farmers to help develop their communities, areas, districts, province and the nation.