By Dulcie Oreke
The creation of the school of excellence is a good concept but for it to be successful there must be commitment from political leaders, bureaucrats and the private sector, Petromin managing director Joshua Kalinoe says.
He said it would require sufficient resources, including funding for innovative learning, which should form part of its curriculum.
“There should be a national working group comprising bureaucrats, technocrats and private sector representatives to facilitate the planning process,” he said.
Kalinoe said the working group should review and implement the public service right-sizing strategy based on the report by the late Michael Manning and his team.
Addressing the second day of the school of excellence seminar in Port Moresby yesterday, he said separating service providing departments from the mainline policy and administrative departments should be the focus of this exercise.
“This would ensure that the budgeting and resourcing needs of the service providing departments and agencies are adequately met in proportion to the annual growth in population,” he said.
He said public expenditure for the purpose of having a clever society through a manpower need analysis and planning process could be achieved through prioritized and coordinated approach to human resource training and development.
“One option to achieve this would be to establish a national manpower planning and assessment team comprising representatives from the respective agencies of the state and the private sector,” Kalinoe said.
He said this team should be institutionalized and would assess and project the medium and long-term needs of manpower training in the national context, including setting parameters for resource allocation such as budgets, curriculum and education infrastructure.