The West New Britain provincial government is sending five containers of study materials to schools in the province.
Provincial administrator Steven Raphael said lack of appropriate training and inadequate supplies of study materials in the past years had hindered the progress of teachers with skills to impart outcome-based education.
That, he said, had affected the education of children.
But this is expected to be a thing of the past following the shipment of containers of educational materials yesterday through the locally-owned Nahavio Stationery.
The materials cost the provincial government K600,000.
Raphael said the provincial administration had seen the need and worked closely with the provincial government and the stationery distributor to make the materials available for teachers and the students.
He said education was one of the provincial government’s priorities and he appealed to the education division and the materials section in the province to make sure the materials were delivered to all the schools.
Raphael appealed to teachers and people responsible for distribution to be mindful that these materials did not grow legs or end up in wrong hands.
The shipment saw 360 cartoons of materials for Kandrian schools shipped on the government work boat MV Artemis to Kandrian last week, with 160 cartons expected to be shipped this week.
Nahavio Stationery director Kazeih Taganny said as a nationally-owned business providing materials to schools, students and other professional academics, the management had made every effort in the past few years to give the best to the community through education.