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CIC Launches Coffee Curriculum (10/10/08)

The launching of the Coffee Curriculum was officiated by His Excellency, Governor General, Grand Chief Sir Paulius Matane on the 10th of October 2008 at the Mark Solon Auditorium, University of Goroka.

In his keynote address, His Excellency acknowledged this first ever industry-driven curriculum by one of the country’s major agricultural industry.

“The coffee curriculum being launched is the first to make education
relevant for our people. It is my view that, in partnership, we can
achieve great heights in educational achievements, and provide for quality educational achievements for our children while, at the same time, address low coffee production, improve coffee quality, enable a
cash income for the people growing coffee and make life worth living
in the community through coffee,” said His Excellency, Sir Paulius Matane.

The Governor General also emphasised on the coffee curriculum being significant as it was “a truly national curriculum”, developed, printed
and to be trialed by Papua New Guineans in the coffee industry.

“It shows that we are not just mere consumers of knowledge given to us by experts form overseas, but it (the Coffee Curriculum) is developed by a truly national team of technical and education specialists,” complimented the Governor General.

He also called on other agriculture industries to follow this initiative, set money aside to help prepare youths with the high level of competencies in the knowledge and skills of specific agriculture industries, so that the youth is equipped with relevant, appropriate employable skills to live off the land and make useful and meaningful contributions to their communities.

The Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd in collaboration with the National Department of Education is proud to introduce this history making, industry driven, coffee curriculum for the education system in Papua New Guinea. The first edition is part of the coffee curriculum and is a trial edition which will be piloted in selected schools in 2009.

The CIC is expected to trial the coffee curriculum in five of the 15 coffee growing provinces of PNG. Three provinces that grow Arabica coffee and two provinces that grow Robusta have been selected for the trial to determine the effectiveness of the coffee curriculum.

A total of six schools (two each from the Primary, Secondary and Vocational Schools) will be used for the trial phase. During and after the trial, appropriate assessments will be made to the curriculum to be expanded to the other ten coffee growing provinces.

Coffee growing provinces that have been selected for the pilot of the curriculum in the school year, 2009 are Western Highlands, Eastern Highlands, Simbu, Morobe and East Sepik rovinces.

 

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