Fisheries graduates create history in Kavieng

Captions: 1.Tumbuans performing at the inaugural National Fisheries College and University of Vudal graduation last Friday. 2.  Diploma students with guests after last Friday’s graduation in Kavieng 3. Dux of the graduating class Gove Francis receiving his diploma from University of Vudal chancellor Sir Rabbie Namaliu. 4. The official party led to the dais. 5. Tumbuans lead guests and graduating students at the National Fisheries College in Kavieng last Friday.

 

History was made at the National Fisheries College in Kavieng last Friday  when the first-ever diploma in fisheries and marine resource management students graduated.

The seven students were Barry Glenda, Galuwa Augustine, Gove Francis, Jahak Leornard, Kenove Robert, Michael Jack amd Yasi Tava Mark.

It was the result of a collaborative effort between the National Fisheries Authority, University of Vudal and the German Development Assistance Agency GTZ that has seen this programme bear fruit.

Guests including UoV Chancellor Sir Rabbie Namaliu, New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan, NFA deputy managing director John Kasu, UoV vice-chancellor Professor Philip Siaguru and Dr Uwe Lohmeyer of GTZ were present for the occasion.

Sir Rabbie said the graduation signified four momentous achievements.

“Firstly,” he said, “seven young people will be graduating to take their place in the fisheries and marine resources sector, which is one of the most-important sectors in the Pacific region.

“Secondly, it has brought together professionals from Germany, PNG and the Pacific nations to enable it to get this far.

“These men and women must be complimented for the foresight and dedication provided to allow the first graduation to occur.

“The third occasion is for this province, New Ireland, to host a university graduation ceremony.

“This compliments the fourth achievement of this occasion which is the further expansion of the university into the New Guinea Islands region as desired by the university council, of which Governor Sir Julius Chan himself in his capacity as the then chancellor helped lay the foundation.”

Sir Rabbie said that fisheries and marine resources were vital commodities for PNG and the UoV, in partnership with the NFA, could stand tall for the contribution they were making to the region and the international community.

“Three years ago,” he said, “there were many critics who thought otherwise about this programme.

“I am indeed happy to see that notwithstanding some obstacles, Vudal University in conjunction with GTZ and the National Fisheries Authority, is now graduating its first batch of trained technical scientists who have a job ahead.

“When the other seven students move on to the main campus at Vudal in East New Britain to complete their degrees, the full cycle would have been achieved and this programme can be reviewed to assess its success.”

Sir Julius said UoV could have a greater impact and role in PNG and the Pacific as indicated by interest from neighbouring Solomon Islands.

He said it was his vision that the NFC could follow suit and one day become a university of its own.

“With foresight,” Sir Julius said, “I hope this college, which I helped launch 20 years ago, will one day excel beyond diplomas, degrees and become a campus of its own.

“I look forward to the day when my people can call this University of New Ireland

The need to re-introduce the professional education program in the fisheries discipline at the university tertiary level has been very much triggered by the increase growth in investment in the PNG domestic fishing industry.

The course was developed in a consultative process between the NFA including NFC, the UoV, the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) and GTZ.

 GTZ contributed to the program by putting together subjects relevant for the degree and diploma program while the rest was done by NFC, UOV and UPNG.

A technical working committee was established since 2006 to annually review progress and work plans for curriculum development and coordination of the program.

 The committee consists of participants from key participating government institutions, namely GTZ, UOV, NFA, Office of Higher Education, UPNG, National Planning & Rural Development.

Diploma and Degree in Fisheries and Marine Resource Management is a three to four years program respectively and courses are offered both at the University of Vudal, East New Britain campus and National Fisheries College-Kavieng.

Year 1 and 4 students are enrolled at UOV and the second and third years’ courses are conducted at NFC in Kavieng.

 

 

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Pacific Islands Forum-Fiji Joint Working Group on the Situation in Fiji 20 November 2008, Forum Secretariat, Suva

AGREED OUTCOMES

The Working Group held its thirty-third meeting at the Forum Secretariat Headquarters in Suva on 20 November 2008, attended by senior officials from Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Republic of the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu.

The Working Group received a paper from Fiji detailing reasons why Fiji would not be able to hold elections by March 2009.  Fiji clarified to the Working Group that there was no definite proposed timing for elections, as the Interim Government’s position was that this was dependent on the outcome of the political dialogue process and related factors.  Working Group members reaffirmed the readiness of Forum members to continue to assist Fiji prepare for elections by March 2009, in accordance with the decision of Forum Leaders.

Working Group members queried the means by which the Interim Government intended to conduct electoral reform, and noted the Interim Government’s position that any mechanism for Constitutional change would be determined through the political dialogue process.  The Working Group discussed the legal requirements for Constitutional change and the importance of ensuring that any such change was conducted in a legal manner.

The Working Group also discussed the purposes and progress of the political dialogue process.  Working Group members indicated that they were considering the request from the Interim Prime Minister for support for that process.  The Working Group welcomed Fiji’s offer to arrange for Mr Robin Nair, independent interlocutor to the political dialogue process, to brief the Working Group at its next meeting.

The Working Group further discussed possible revision of its Terms of Reference, and agreed on a proposed revised text which would be referred to capitals for consideration in advance of the Working Group’s next meeting.

The Working Group discussed preparations for the upcoming Ministerial Contact Group visit in December.

The Working Group will hold its next meeting on 4 December 2008.

Forum Secretariat, Suva

20 November 2008

 

Access to information crucial for people

President of the PNG Media Council Joe R. Kanekane has called for increased dialogue between the government, newsmakers and the media.

Mr Kanekane said access to information had been and continued to be the biggest impediment to development of the country.

“One of the key recommendations to the government and news makers following the recent successful media conference was the need to make available information in a timely, and unsanctioned way,” said Mr Kanekane.

Mr Kanekane made this remarks in light of the ban on Post-Courier to cover the 2009 budget this week. He said, the action by the government pushes further, initiatives to make the media more accountable to its quality of reporting.

Mr Kanekane said Post-Courier was a leading media establishment and the absence of its budget coverage in all its years is sad indeed. The Post-Courier has faithfully covered budgets since its inception, and last Tuesday’s event marks a dark chapter in disseminating pivotal information -the 2009 Budget.

“The six million people deserve to be informed on a significant issue like the National Budget, especially how it relates to them. They also have a choice of medium, be it the Post-Courier or any other form of media.

“The recent global financial events have prompted our people to pay close attention to news and developments. And, the budget is one such event that they all look forward to, especially being covered by a leading daily newspaper,” said Mr Kanekane.

He said, he hoped the budget locked out incident would not spill over to other developments being pursued by the government. And, the Post-Courier is allowed to report freely and share other privilege enjoyed by its counterparts.

“Ultimately, the people suffer as a result of this kind of action. I hope, the protests by the government do not prevent the Post-Courier to react negatively in their pursuit of stories that will boost the development of this country,” said Mr Kanekane.

He also added that there was room to seek redress, especially through the Melanesian Way. And, this, he hopes can be resolved through a roundtable process.

Mr Joe Kanekane

President

Media Council of PNG

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University of Goroka computer news

By RUSSEL DEKE HARADA

 

Hello Malum,

Long time no hear from you.

This morning, our University Of Goroka-ICT department had an informal ICT workshop for graduating students. (16 attendance)

We hosted this workshop at the new open computer Lab called STAR Room in our treasure Library building.

Our university has the new satellite broad-band system called PNGARNet (Academic Research Network) but only providing for the staff.

Today we allowed students access the Internet and they have their own web-mail account.

After they graduate from UOG, almost all will become teachers of secondary/high schools.

Now they can contact to us if they have any technical ICT problems after they start work at the schools.

Also we introduced your blog site to upload their own information to use the blog.

We understand that the most secondary/high schools in PNG do not have the Internet connection but in the future our university wants to provide

better internet connection to them through wireless technology.

We introduced OSS (Open Source Software) also.

Almost 100% of PCs in PNG is running Windows but we would like to show the other operating system to the students.

This is because Windows software is not free and so many PC viruses infected.

We introduced edubuntu (ubuntu8.04) desktop and this is enough function to use some basic instructions.

This workshop is a big mile-stone for teacher's using the Internet facility and OSS.

This is the one of the comments from the students.

Mandy Aaron said:I wish to thank you and your team for facilitating this workshop. I now have a fair idea on some of the things that I never understood.

 For example, I never understood the concept of virus and why certain email addresses are created the way they are, until now.

The workshop was quite informative and well understood because you spoke my own language which is Tok Pisin.

There should be more of this type of workshop be carried out by you because there are lots of basic IT skills some of us do not know.

Also I appreciate your generousity in supplying the other software which is a bonus for me for attending this workshop.

I will contact you if I my school needs you in the near future.

 

Arigato!

Thank you!

Tenk yu!

Regards,

 

Russell Deka HARADA

ICT Manager

The University of Goroka