PNG UNRE News

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. Learn about its benefits from Geoscientist Erwin Schutfort on May 7 at 7pm at the  Monsieur Henry Cafe . Entry is free. Everyone is welcome to attend.

UNRE Student Representative Council 2018.

2018 SRC President Jaspar Daun Newly elected 2018 PNG UNRE Student Representative Council (SRC) President Jaspar Daun stands for Unity. This was the platform he stood on when campaigning for presidency and is what he pledges to promote during his term at the helm of the SRC. “PNG UNRE is made up of people with diverse culture. Let’s all combine these together, stay as one and move as one for the betterment of all students,” he said when interviewed last week. Daun takes his new role very seriously and with great responsibility as his main goal is to represent the voice of the student body. His priority areas while in office are to: 1.        Promote unity; 2.        Encourage gender equality; 3.        Be the mouthpiece of students; 4.        See improvement student meals; and 5.        See students have access to f...

Jean Pascal Henry Owner of Monsieur Henry Café in Kokopo has encouraged students of UNRE not to go into business with their main focus on money. Jean Pascal Henry gave an inspirational talk to Year 4 students under the module A413 Ent repreneurship that motivated them to understand that business is not all about money. “Entrepreneurship is not just looking for money. It is a long-term investment. It needs more of your time, sweat, right attitude and you need a plan. Entrepreneurship comes with value, a vision and a mission,” he said. Mr Henry told the students that to become entrepreneurs, they don’t need to start big because there are many opportunities around them. “PNG is a young country with huge potential in agriculture and tourism and students must be smart and creative on how they can come up with good ideas to be an entrepreneur. Start small but be creative,” he said. He said an entrepreneur must have a great concern for the community they live in because...

The newly introduced module A413D Entrepreneurship , which is being taught to Year 4 PNG UNRE students is progressing well. It has received overwhelming support from business houses and government organizations in the province. The students have been privileged to have representatives from organisations in both the private and public sector deliver lectures to them about the concept of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial behaviour, successful initiatives and entrepreneurship frameworks. Earlier this month, managers of the National Development Bank (NDB) and the Internal Revenue Commission (IRC) made separate presentations on the types of services they provide to people who are interested in establishing businesses. NDB Branch Manager Edward Elliot said in his presentation that he believed the module would help students be self-reliant and good business people. He said NDB aims to see Papua New Guineans working to build the nation and encouraged them to do something within their...

Farmers in Papua New Guinea lack training and awareness on Animal Health Disease Surveillance. This concern was raised by PNG UNRE Animal Science lecturer Charles Maika recently during his presentation “ Animal Health Disease Surveillance and Its Importance to PNG ” at a weekly seminar attended by University staff and students. Mr Maika said in the past PNG was isolated and as a result the country was free from some of the diseases that affected the livestock of other countries, but this has now changed. He said there is now an increase in people’s movement, trade agreements with other countries, high demand for livestock production in the country, and moreover it is difficult to monitor the country’s boarder areas. He explained that because of PNG’s location - Indonesia on the west, Solomon Islands on the east and Australia on the south - it is vulnerable to diseases. Mr Maika said because of these factors, farmers critically need training and awareness to understand the...

Animal Science lecturer Freddy Gena promotes UNRE graduates to the industry. Staff and students of the University have been going on air on NBC Radio East New Britain (RENB) to inform the people of East New Britain on the role of the University and the developments taking place. Apart from the University’s Radio Program, Uni Tokaut , which is broadcasted on RENB every Thursday at 7pm, the radio station has given its listeners another opportunity to hear firsthand from UNRE students what they are learning and from staff what they are teaching and the research they are involved in. This is either recorded or aired live once a month. The initiative by the University’s Public Relations Office is to help people, particularly high school and secondary school students, to understand what UNRE is all about. It began last month with the Career Expo team who went live on RENB explaining why the University is hosting the Career Expo for its final year students. On April 11, a team of...

Third-year Agriculture student Zaphaniah Lao at Radio East New Britain. Meet Zaphaniah Lao, a third year Bachelor of Tropical Agriculture student at the University who believes PNG UNRE is the best University in PNG to study at. “Since PNG is a floating island of natural resources, this is the best university that you and I need to come and study at so we can control what is within our country,” he said. The self-confessed future entrepreneur was speaking on the Government Talk Show on Radio East New Britain to market the University to secondary school students. Zaphaniah said he knew what he wanted to do for a career while still in high school and began researching about UNRE as a Grade 10 in 2013. When the time came to fill in his Grade 12 School Leaver Form two years later, he made the radical move of listing UNRE as his first, second and third choice. (Editor’s note: this is not advisable). “My parents told me, this is not a University, it is Vudal A...