DETAILED information about teachers in Papua New Guinea will be available now after the launch of the teachers’ information management system (Tims) online data base.
The country's Teaching Service Commission (TSC) designed and developed the electronic online database system to enable access to information and will serve as a centralised information centre for teachers employed with the teaching service.
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| Students at Fr Peters Secondary , Photo by PNGeHow |
The Tims is programmed for efficiency and signifies the importance of data for informed decision-making and for administrative applications and purposes involving teachers.
TSC chairman Samson Wangihomie said as the agent of State who employed all teachers in the national education system, it needed to keep a data base for all the teachers, but never did.
He said teachers should continue to fill in the teacher information sheets and send to TSC to develop the programme to keep information on the teacher information system.
“TSC should maintain hard files for each teacher to complement the electronic files which will create and programme for every teacher,” he said.
“The hard copy files will help in establishing who the teacher is from records on file which are documentary evidences as was done in the audit of elementary school teachers.”
Wangihomie said last year, TSC asked all teachers’ college graduating students to fill in an information sheet and the commission was able to enter the data and information supplied into Tims which would be updated every year.
He said he was proud of what TSC was doing to keep and maintain teacher information through a data base which had been long overdue.
“This will also eliminate ghost and fraudulent teachers from the system by the press of a button,” he said.
Wangihomie said if TSC had such information from the start, they would not have had issues that they were having where the Education Department and TSC audited elementary school teacher files and established fraud cases which saw many teachers deregistered and terminated.
The National / PNG eHow
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