UOG Bulletin Issue 2 (March-April, 2016)

Issue. 2 UOG Bulletin
Pg2 | UOG expands to the Pacific Pg4 | New Housing for staff on campus Pg10 | UOG offers lifeline to ex-convict
News and Information from The University of Goroka
BULLETIN
UOG Issue 2
2016 March - April
Cover Pic: Guest of Honor Dr. GLynn Galo - Solomon Islands National UniversityVice-Chancellor - presenting Mr. Hugo
Pado Hebala his paper during the Pacific Open Campus graduation in Honiara. Story on Pg 2.
Eyes on Pacific

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UOG Bulletin Issue. 2
Pacific expansion
The University of Goroka graduated
over 900 students during its recent
19th Graduation Ceremony.
The main highlight was UOG’s Insti-
tute of Distance and Flexible Learning
(IDFL) graduation ceremonies held at
its various campuses coinciding with
the 19th graduation.
The campuses are Highlands Region-
al Open Campus (Mt Hagen), Pacific
Open Campus (Honiara, Solomon
Islands) and the West New Britain Open
Campus.
From the 956 students, 776 graduat-
ed from the main campus (Goroka) and
180 graduated from UOG’s Institute of
Flexible and Learning centres (High-
lands Regional Open Campus - 48,
The University of
Goroka’s distance
learning benefiting
teachers, helpful
Papua New Guinea’s High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands His Excellency Fred Yakasa (left) and The University of Goroka’s
Chancellor Mr. Joseph SUkwianomb (right) with dignitaries at the second Pacific Open Campus graduation held at the Solomon
Kitano Mendana Hotel in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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Pacific Open Campus -18 and West New
Britain -114).
In Mt Hagen on April 28, UOG’s High-
lands Regional Open Campus graduat-
ed its first 48 students with Bachelors in
School Management. These pioneering
students, who were enrolled when this
distance mode of learning was estab-
lished in 2014, were teachers teaching
in Jiwaka, Western Highlands, Southern
Highlands, Hela and Enga.
In West New Britain, 114 students
graduated with Diploma in Early Child-
hood.
Across the Solomon Sea and beyond
the Pacific Ocean, UOG’s Pacific Open
Campus (POC) held is second Gradua-
tion Ceremony at the Solomon Kitano
Mendana Hotel in Honiara, Solomon
Islands on May 5.
This POC graduation was a significant
ceremony as it marked UOG’s mission
of expanding into the Pacific and also
complimenting the Papua New Guinea
Government’s vision of cross-border
education.
The University of Goroka’s interim
Council Chancellor Mr. Joseph Sukwi-
anomb was on hand to reiterate UOG’s
Pacific expansion mission in alignment
with the PNG Governments assistance
to the Solomon Islands in terms of
Education.
Mr. Sukwianomb said the relationship
to education and human capital devel-
opment between these two Melanesian
countries dates back two decades ago.
“The relationship to education and
human capital development dates
back to 18-20 years. Many colleagues
benefited from Law and the School of
Medicine,”Mr. Sukwianomb.
“The Attorney General of Solomon
Islands is a product of the University
of Papua New Guinea. He graduated
with a Law degree when I was the
Vice-Chancellor at UPNG.
“It is not a mistake this morning for
us to witness the second graduation of
this nature to bring back those memo-
ries but also to break new grounds to
connect the people of this two counties
and also Melanesia and the Pacific.”
TRAINING PACIFIC LEADERS
Mr. Sukwianomb said there was a need
to train Pacific Leaders to carry on the
legacy and traditions of the Pacific
Islanders.
“It’s important to note that this
occasion reminds us on the need to
train Pacific leaders. Very important that
these leaders work together.
“The leaders that were trained during
my age have to move on. Few of us
remain. But we need to look at ways to
train Papua New Guineans, Solomon Is-
landers, Melanesians, Micronesians and
Polynesians to challenge the develop-
ment challenges that face us as nations
and the region as well.
“The University of Goroka in 2014
have taken the biggest challenge, past
the shores of Papua New Guinea, to
reach the Solomon Islands.
“Here we witness the second gradua-
tion since the establishment of the UOG
POC in Honiara, which to us is a step-
ping stone to reaching out to the other
Pacific Island counties.
“The challenge for us as the univer-
sity is to produce products that would
be worthy to those countries. Today
we witness an event of significance
to yourself as graduates and us the
administrators and leaders who make
up this country we call Melanesia and
the Pacific.
“You may have heard stories of what
happened last year. The University Of
Goroka began to wonder whether we
would have graduates with the respec-
tive degrees we were working for in the
last two or three years.
“I’ve come here to bear witness, that
as a country and as an institution, we
have rescued The University Of Goroka
from falling or from going down the
drain. I stand here before you as the
Chancellor of The University Of Goroka,
the Chancellor of the interim Univer-
sity Council, that we were able to put
together our resources and our minds
to rescue the second half of the 2015
academic year.
“We did what we had to do admin-
istratively to continue for one more
month till November so we had to facili-
tate all the examinations, get the grades
marked, academic board approved the
grades and so the council on the 18th
of April endorsed all your grades. The
900 plus graduates who are graduating
this year.
“You joined the rest of the 900 grad-
uating in the full colors and academic
accreditation in the programs you have
completed.
“You can confidently share your pa-
pers with you colleagues, your families,
employers and the rest of the interna-
tional community.
“The paper you got is just equal in
value, credence and standing with the
rest of the academic community in the
world. From those institutions that call
themselves universities.
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Students preparing to enter the Main Quadrangle at the Main Campus in Goroka for
the graduation on April 20, 2016.

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In a small but significant ceremony,
the Top Management Team were pre-
sented keys to eight new houses on
campus from contractors.
The move is a step forward in battling
the housing issue which affects some
academic and professional staff living
off campus.
The eight houses were built by three
different contractors.
The houses a one High Covenant Ex-
ecutive House, four Medium Covenant
Duplex, one HS High Covenant House
and two Duplex. The single duplex is
located opposite the male students res-
idential hall, while the other six houses
is at Down Under.
Housing chairperson Pricilla Sakopa
was elated when handed the keys and
thanked the Planning Division and the
contractors for a job well done.
“On behalf of the staff and the
Housing committee, thank you very
much indeed for taking housing issue
as a priority for developments at UOG,”
Sakopa said.
“I want to thank the constructors –
Guangdong and the others for your
time, effort and commitment.
“I want to thank the Planning Division
for your great efforts in putting every-
thing together. Thank you so much to
Director Mr. Kelly Matoli and your team.
“Thank you so much and we are
looking forward to more of this and I’m
sure the management will continue to
support us and by five years time, all
staff should be living on campus.”
Matoli said hi Division will be con-
structing another set of houses and du-
plex and its in the tender process now.
“By the end of the year, if it goes well,
we will hand you keys,”Matoli said.
Representing the Vice Chancellor
on the occasion, Pro-Vice Chancellor
Dr. Samuel Kopamu said the small but
significant occasion marked the end of
millions of Kina being invested in this
projects.
“It didn’t take one person to do it. It
took a lot of people and lot of efforts
went into project planning, sub-leasing,
tendering process evaluation to award-
ing contracts and now we have some
houses,”Dr Kopamu said.“I know that
many of our staff members waiting for
houses will be very pleased.”
UOG staff gets new houses
The Duplex at Virgin Lane, next to the male student residential hall.
Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr. Samuel Kopamu with a representative from Guangdong Construction officially opening the new houses.

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UOG is one of them. It’s a member of
the Commonwealth, the university
make up the commonwealth.
SUPPORT FOR CAMPUS
In supporting students learning at the
campus, Mr. Sukwianomb made a call
for the Solomon Islands Government
(SIG), through its Department of Higher
Education, to review the existing Mem-
orandum of Understanding between
UOG and the Solomon Islands Gov-
ernment to support the Pacific Open
Campus.
The MOU was signed in 2014 before
establishing the Pacific Open Campus.
“The operations that we (UOG) have
and the Department of Higher Educa-
tion in this country, I just want to make
reference for the need to support this
program.
“I read the MOU and we mentioned
this to the PNG High Commissioner to
Solomon Islands His Excellency Fred Ya-
kasa that we need to revise the MOU so
that points specified in the provisions
of the MOU are clearly restated so that
the SIG will have to make some con-
tributions to the cost of running some
programs.
“You bear witness, for those who will
be graduating, that it is better, to stay at
home, do your work and do your part-
time studies. It’s cheaper, its economical
and you don’t have to go away to Papua
New Guinea of elsewhere for studies.
“You’ve proven yourself, that you
can do studies by distance and flexible
learning right here at your door step.
Because it’s going to be costing less, we
think it is important to go into negoti-
ations to revise and review the MOU so
the SIG can make contributions towards
the cost of running the campus.
SECURED LAND SPACE
“We want to secure a land space to
allow students to study so we can pro-
mote the Pacific Campus in Solomon
Islands to other parts of the Region and
particularly the Melanesian countries,”
the Chancellor said.
“I understand that the former Educa-
tion Minister, in his own wisdom took to
the National Executive Council while he
was in Government, to get the approval
for a piece of land to be given approval
for this program.
“I know there are some issues but I
hope we can renegotiate the deal to
have the land restored back to The
University of Goroka’s Pacific Open
Campus.
“The Solomon Islands and Honiara
hosts a number of Pacific Based organi-
zations which looks after the interest of
the Pacific Nations.
“UOG wants to count among those
renowned institution that will provide
the back up to the many discussions
and engagements that our Govern-
ments have undertaken through
various regional organizations that are
around in the Region.
“We see ourselves as a flag carrier in
the provision of education, training and
research in higher education. And you
are pioneers, those of you that will be
leaving us this afternoon, you are real
ambassadors. You are really the voice,
the catalyst for change for our people in
the Solomon Islands.
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
“This year 2016, we have seen three
graduations so far, organized by UOG.
The main one in Goroka, EHP, we grad-
uated 768 students from Masters to
Certificates.
“The following week we graduated 48
students in Mt Hagen. This is the third in
the series of graduation. We are happy
to be part of the graduation.
“Very experienced professionals
coming forward, enrolled, paid your
fees and the University now is recipro-
cating that trust by graduating you in
full colors and in full confidence that
when you graduate, with the papers
that you get, you are as equal as anyone
else that have gone through university
education.
AGENTS OF CHANGE
“I want to appeal to you that our
countries, two countries in Melanesia,
the two largest islands in the Mela-
nesian region, our Governments are
going through a challenging period of
governance and leadership. Govern-
ment dealing with issues of leadership,
accountability and transparency.
“In Papua New Guinea we read a lot
about school boards going overboard
and irresponsible for public funds. And
those of you graduating today, in one
way or another, you going to be the
managers and supervisors of the educa-
tion system in place.
“My call to you is to stand above all
and to lead by example on accountabili-
ty issues, transparency issues, especially
when it comes to public funds.
“If you can do that with this cohort
that we are graduating, you should be
the models, the guiding examples in
making sure that we don’t have issues
of corruption if you like, or public mon-
ies being misused or misappropriated.
“Keep in the back of your mind that
you can make a difference in these
areas and we are confident and because
you are carrying the flag of The Univer-
sity of Goroka.
“We have to all stand together to
fight corruption and be above all we
can deliver the services that our people
need.
The POC started off with 400 students
being registered in 2014. Eighteen at
least graduated with 200 students still
yet to complete their courses.
”It’s a small beginning but a very
big stepping stone for you and for us
as an institution and collaborators of
the two Melanesian countries going
forward with an agenda of helping each
other. That I think is the very important
message.”

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Heavyweights ... From Left: UOG Institute of Distance and Flexible Learning Director Kensol Rui, Solomon Islands National University (SINU)
Vice Chancellor Dr. Glynn Galo, UOG Chancellor Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb, PNG High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands His Excellency
Fred Yakasa and Highlands Regional Open Campus Director Mr. Hugo Kop after the Pacific Open Campus graduation in Honiara, SI.
Top Gun ... PNG High Commissioner to the Solomon
Islands His Excellency Fred Yakasa presenting an award to
full-time student Mr. Boniface Liliu who is the winner of
the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) In-Service, Science
award at the second Pacific Open Campus graduation at
the Solomon Kitano Mendana Hotel, Honiara, SI.
Signed, sealed, delivered ... IDFL students in Honiara, Solomon Islands,
showing off their papers after the graduation ceremony.
Top: Graduands listening attentively to speeches at the graduation arena.
19th UOG Graduation in Picture

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History march ... Highlands Regional Open Campus graduands marching in
a procession to the graduation arena at the Hagen Park Secondary School, Mt
Hagen, Western Highlands Province. This was the first HROC graduation.
Benchmark set ... Sixty-six (66) year old Palem Onom from
Mul-Baiyer in Western Highlands is the oldest man to grad-
uate during UOG’s 19th Graduation Ceremony. He may be
the oldest chap ever to graduate with a Bachelors Degree
(Ba.School Management) at UOG or the country.
Main Campus, Goroka, EHP
Entertainers ... Bougainville and Milne Bay Students performed their cultural dances to lighten up the 19th UOG Graduation.

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From gaol to a classroomUOG offers second chance to ex-convict after serving time
By STANLEY PHILIP SAUBA
Bachelor of Education – Commerce
School of Humanities (2012-2015)
Three long and perfectly timed dongs
of the 9pm bell split the stillness of
the night followed by a commanding
voice from the guard house ordering
silence.
The lights had blacked out an hour
ago and the half moon partly hidden by
the clouds cast its dim yellowish light
through the open barred windows,
painting the worn out brick wall inside
the cell to pale white.
Most of my cell mates have already
curled up under the blue and red
striped government-issued blankets
while a few others whispered and
tiptoed around probably in search of a
last roll brus before calling it off for the
night.
A continued cough somewhere in
the blackness signaled the presence of
tuberculosis as I turned to face the wall
and struggled to make myself comfort-
able on two folded blankets beneath
me that had been my mattress for the
last one and a quarter year.
Sounds of heavy breathing followed
by footsteps came from outside of the
cell block as a night-shift guard flash
bright spotlights on the barred win-
dows above to make sure all prisoners
were securely confined.
It was a Tuesday night, April 13, 2010
only a few hours remaining to my final
discharge time at 9am the following
morning, after serving a prison term of
one year and four months inside Lakie-
mata Prison in Kimbe,West New Britain.
It was a hot afternoon on Decem-
ber 8, 2008, when I first stood at the
Lakiemata prison gate to be thoroughly
checked before I would be escorted
to my cell to start serving my court
sentence.
The day I still remember like it hap-
pened just a few minutes ago. The hot
scorching sun showed no mercy as I
quickly wiped the dripping sweat off
my bony face to cut off its usual journey
down into my heat-affected red eyes.
Blood rushed up my spine and sweat
ran down my chest and down my long
thin legs inside the faded blue jeans as I
shakily forced a smile at the tall correc-
tional officer who showed no intention
of smiling back at me. His hawk-like
eyes searched my face to catch a sign
of panic that would tell him I am hiding
a contraband item somewhere among
my trousers and two shirts which I hold.
Around the fence perimeters, tower
guards watched carefully with their
guns aimed down into the precinct
and monitoring every movement. As
the gates of the heavy iron cell doors
swung closed that evening, I suc-
cumbed to the painful thoughts that I
have failed to repay countless amounts
of money embraced with love that my
parents and my elder brother (Ezekiel
Philip Sauba) spent to see me through
in my entire schooling life.
As days grew into weeks, the though
tortured me as suffering and despera-
tion grew inside of me. It is like being
under water without being able to
breathe and the more time that passes,
the more you to breath; but you can’t.
Or like having your hands in a fire with-
out being able to take them out and
every minute that passes, the pain gets
stronger. A thought came into my mind
planning of escaping but nevertheless
situations opposed me.
Life, in many occasions, do not give
second chances and can be lost in many
ways, at times without dying. Being
locked-up is one of those ways. When
sentence to prison to serve a good
number of years and months is like
being buried alive.
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Stanley Philip Sauba (right) with a course mate during the 19th Graduation ceremo-
ny in Goroka, EHP.

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Revamping ICT
ICTcorner
Telikom PNG staff installing new Wifi outdoor unit on campus.
Mr. Palem Onom
BA.School Management, UOG, Dip.
Primary Teaching, Balob
Age: 66-year old
From: Mul-Baiyer, Western Highlands
Teaching Experience:
Teaching for 40-years (1974-2014).
Resigned on January 27, 2014 and at
the same time enrolled at the UOG
Distance and Flexible Learning.
What motivated you to take up
this course? They offered me this
programme through the Depart-
ment of Education. I resigned at the
same time but being offered this pro-
gramme made me feel that I needed
to go and study again. So I commit-
ted my own resources and time to
came back to school.
Whats next after this? I want to go
back to teaching or any other jobs
available in the province or any-
where in the country. I can still work.
I feel excited. I feel very excited!.
Professional Career
Mr. Onom graduated in Balob
Teachers College in 1973 and started
his first year of teaching at Bagabag
Primary School, in Madang in 1974.
In 1977 Mr. Onom contested the
Mul-Baiyer Open seat and came
fourth. There onwards started teach-
ing in the Western Highlands, reach-
ing all the districts in the province.
After resigning in 2014, the
Government awarded him with the
Order of Logohu for his long service
to Education in the country. Award-
ed at the government House by the
Governor General Sir Michael Ogio.
Mr. Onom has 10 children: Two
lawyers, an accountant, a teacher,
another working with Lamana De-
velopment Corporation and another
with BSP.
Profiles
As of March 24, the ICT team has ac-
tivated emails and internet access for
all UOG staff members and registered
students.
A total of 4,852 Google based email
accounts have been created. A demon-
stration session was held at the Mark
Solon Auditorium for those that needed
help with the use of Google applica-
tions or activating their e-mail accounts.
The following was what that trans-
pired:
l Exactly 463 staff e-mail accounts
have been created for UOG staff
members on Google. These accounts
will work simultaneously with UOG’s
internal email.
l Exactly 4,389 Google accounts have
been created for UOG students. This
means that as of now all Year 1 – Year 4
students and all Postgraduate students
have e-mail access.
l It is our plan that eventually, all
our internal email will be moved to the
cloud based Google account. Google
has been so kind and generous to The
University of Goroka by providing the
following at no cost to us.
We encourage everyone to take ad-
vantage of these opportunities:
w Unlimited data storage to indi-
vidual staff and students on their cloud
based Google applications account.
w Free hosting of our new UOG web-
site.
w At least 10,000 free email accounts
for staff and students of UOG.
w Free use of Google classroom facil-
ity (for lecturers and students of UOG).
w Assurance of anti-virus protection
on all files stored online.
w With compatibility to the Open
School Information System, thereby
providing access to: UOG Student
Administration records, UOG Student
Housing and Messing records, UOG
University Facility records, UOG Finance
records, and UOG Staffing & HR records,
etc, from any location in the world.
The University provided free internet
access to about 500 users (staff and
students)concurrently, from 5 different
locations around UOG campus. This ser-
vice was offered temporarily on a trial
basis while awaiting Telikom to install
permanent internet infrastructure.
Telikom is in the process of installing
new wifi outdoor unit on campus.w
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By SEU NANGAS ADRIAN, GABRIEL
JOE AND LOPUK APELLIS
UOG CREATIVE MEDIA STUDENTS
The University of Goroka launched its
redeveloped website on Friday, April
18th in front of a packed Mark Solon
Auditorium.
Present to witness the occasion were
staff, students, the Top Management
Team and the University Council.
The redeveloped website is hosted by
Google and is step forward for UOG in
terms of beefing up its ICT network and
infrastructure on campus.
The website also provides staffs and
students of UOG and people around
the world with an innovative way of
receiving updated information about
the university.
Pro Vice Chancellor Dr Samuel Ko-
pamu, who was vocal in setting up the
website, said information about the
university was now readily available for
the wider community.
“The website will feature the UOG
Academic departments, staff members
and profiles, and degree/diploma pro-
grams offered,”Dr. Kopamu said.
He said the website is placing the
university on the global front and the
university is taking the lead in research
and teaching and learning.
“What we achieve today is promot-
ing the university. By marketing the
university to the world we can attract
lecturers and professors from interna-
tional organizations to come and work,”
Dr Kopamu said.“The current staffs and
students are the first to excess and ex-
perience this new and exciting service
and the launching of this website is the
beginning of another level.
The interim University Council Chan-
cellor Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb said the
world was changing and UOG should
also be on par with the changes in ICT.
“This is about building another build-
ing block to build a university, we all
should be proud of,”Mr Joseph Sukwi-
anomb said.
The Chancellor said it was a very
important event and a very important
innovative period into Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) and
the website can now enable students to
register through email during second
semester, starting this year.
Pro Chancellor Dr Musawe Sinebare
said all the developments taking place
at the university, headed by the interim
council, was about shaping and giving
light to the new generation of leaders.
“What you are seeing now in terms of
the progress is driven by our university
motto Creating the Future.
“The little things we do now adds on
to the greater things,”Dr Sinebare said.
Mr. Joseph Sukwianomb officially
launched the website.
Reworked website online
Mr. Sukwianomb (left) pressing the “enter” key to officially launch the website as The
University of Goroka’s web-master Mr. Junior Taomba looks on to the projector.
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That is why there is a saying that prisons
are the cemeteries for the living. Your
impression of life behind the tall barbed
wires fence and brick walls of a prison
may be shaped by the movies, books
and probably stories you hear from
friends or family members who have
done time.
The impression that came with hor-
rifying stories of dangerous cell fights,
food shortage and deadly diseases
developed from contaminated water
and lack of hygiene. Much worse is the
escape nights when all inmates would
have to pile out through the open cell
door into the unforgiving and merciless
hands of those tiring angry warders. It
has been a year since I walked out of
that place and looking back I am hum-
bled that being in prison has made me
a better person. Am not proud of what
I’ve done or why I went to jail, but I can
change the past: it’s who I am and I
have to embraced it and use the experi-
ence to make something out of my life.
Prison had an unexpected, profound in-
fluence on me and gave my life a sense
of purpose I could have never predict-
ed. In reality it is very different from that
of the movies and what people think. It
is in its own way a very educative place
in a dark way.
It was after my jail time I zeal and a
strong determination had driven me to
do upgrading in 2011 with the Depart-
ment of Self Education (DOSE) with the
PNG UNRE and finally was accepted
under the School of Humanities Bach-
elor of ARTS (Commerce) Degree with
University of Goroka in 2012. And out
of many of my university friends that I
struggle with to make it to the highest
point of achievement in my education
life is a close friend and Brother Julius
Waiguma.
Name: Stanley Philip Sauba
Age: 29
Origin: Sapuain, Wewak District, WSP
Religion: Seventhday Adventist
Course: Bachelor of Education/
Commerce/ Humanities (2012-2015)
Admission Year: 2012
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Creating the Future
The interest in learning in general
must continue to motivate those
respective institutions and both Gov-
ernments and Learning Institutions to
upgrade learning.
This was the message to the grad-
uating students of The University of
Goroka’s Pacific Open Campus and the
Governments of Papua New Guinea and
the Solomon Islands from His Excellen-
cy Fred Yakasa – PNG High Commission-
er to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
“On the political front, Papua New
Guinea has over 38 years of bi-lateral
relationship with the Solomon Islands
Government, but we have very similar
traditions as Melanesians and similar
challenges,”Mr. Yakasa said.
“As last frontiers on the world stage,
we have a lot to catch up on. We can’t
make it anywhere without our precious
resource which is our human capital.
“Our people must be educated
enough to take on the challenges to
lead our countries.”
Mr. Yakasa said many officers in the
Solomon Islands Government, includ-
ing bureaucrats attained their qualifica-
tions back in PNG.
A continuation from such assistance
was the signing of the Memorandum of
Understanding between UOG and the
Solomon Islands Government in 2014
on Education assistance in Solomon
Islands.
Mr. Yakasa announced that the PNG
Government had a commitment with its
Melanesian brother for PNG to sponsor
800 students from the Solomon Islands
to study in PNG.
This started off by giving scholarships
to SI students to study in various institu-
tions in PNG. The sponsorship is %100
package and PNG remains committed
to continue the commitment, he said.
This graduation is one of such
through the University of Goroka.
Around the same time in 2014 UOG
signed a MOU with the Solomon Islands
Government. The fruit of which was wit-
ness on May 5 - the second graduation
of the Pacific Open Campus.
Mr. Yakasa encouraged UOG to work
closely with the SI Education Depart-
ment and other institutions in the
Solomon Islands to work together to
improve the learning facilities for the
institution in Honiara and a forward
base to go out the Region.
In congratulating the graduating stu-
dents, Mr. Yakasa said:“You don’t have
to go to Goroka, you have done it here”.
SI students are currently studying in
the UPNG, UOT, UNRE, Pacific Adventist
University, Divine Word University and
The University of Goroka.
Learning motivates upgrade
His Excellency Fred Yakasa (third-left) meeting staff of The University of Goroka at the
High Commissioner’s office in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

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