The Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) is planning to build a training institution in Port Moresby for all engineering fields to meet the growing demand from potential students who are being affected by the university’s yearly quota.
Vice Chancellor, Dr Ora Renagi, revealed this in his speech yesterday during the ground-breaking ceremony of the 100-bed female dormitory to be built at a cost of K15 million to be funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Dr Renagi said the Australian government had indicated that it would help fund the establishment of an engineering school in Port Moresby and the administration was working with the Department of Lands and Physical Planning to secure institutional land available in Port Moresby.
There is a huge market for engineering, science and technology training in Port Moresby because that is where the money is and that is where the students who are unable to come to Unitech in Lae can attend because we have a quota that cuts out many other students who can’t come to university.
Dr Renagi
The University of Technology is the leading engineering training institution in the Pacific region and has been improving its standards for international accreditation.
The management is providing the leadership to address the government agenda of access. Unitech will not wait for government to solve our problems, we are now providing our courses online to increase our intake.
We are also going to be providing our courses online in Port Moresby particularly our engineering courses, partnering with Engineering Institute of Technology from Australia.
Dr Ora Renagi, University of Technology Vice Chancellor