The University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) SRC President-elect Immanuel Isaac has urged the Office of Higher Education (OHE) to process OHE-sponsored students’ airfares on time in line with the university’s academic calendar.

He made the call because in previous years OHE had not provided the tickets on time and most continuing or first year students arrive late for registration resulting on missing out on pre-allocated rooms.

Papua New Guinea students are being urged to take up scholarships under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus programme.

Martin Dihm, head of the European Union Delegation in Port Moresby, is also calling on local higher education institutions to explore possibilities for co-operation arrangements with European institutions under this scheme.

“I encourage PNG students to apply for the scholarships. We have seen a lot of interest from countries in the Asia-Pacific region and look forward to a fair number of applications from PNG in 2012,” Dihm said.

Tertiary students in Morobe province attending 17 institutions around the country have welcomed a K5 million funding from the Provincial Government through its Gerson-Solulu Scholarship this year.

Spokesman Offo Olio of the Martin Luther seminary, on behalf of 670 continuing students and more than 300 first year students, thanked the provincial government for honouring its promise to make the scholarship a long-term fixture in the budget.

The list for selected students for 2012 is now available online for free download and public consumption. The document is in MS Excel format and has the complete list for all new intakes.

You can download the list by going to our download page or directly via this link http://tinyurl.com/7tmyp7p.

List of continuing students will be published later.