20/02/2022

Obituary Joe Kaowai (8 May 1982 - 14 February 2022)

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Joe Kaowai in Venice In the night of Monday 14 February 2022, our wonderful friend, servant-leader, educator, and colleague Joe Kaowai passe...
08/12/2021

Five Checks Before Doing Cross-Country Comparisons

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6 December 2021 Background I have always been fascinated by national indicator frameworks and making cross-country comparisons. When doing m...
07/12/2021

Times Higher Education: "Exiled v-c fights to return to Papua New Guinea"

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(Upon request, here is the article from 2014 which gave international attention to the situation of PNG universities. I did in fact return o...
30/12/2020

Green University Rankings: Research Note 30 December 2020

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Background During the last decades, attempts to measure the performance of universities have multiplied. These performance scores, rankings,...
18/12/2020

Three Myths about Papua New Guinea’s Development

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Background UNESCO’s latest report Global Education Monitoring Report: Inclusion and education – All means all (2020) sheds more light on the...
16/12/2020

Papua New Guinea: Failure to Develop or Developing to Fail – a rejoinder

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Background Last Tuesday 15 December 2020 the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) published the 30th edition of the Human Development R...
29/11/2020

E learning @ Unitech

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A journey into the digital abyss Pundits have fretted for a long time about the widening digital divide between the high and low-income, or ...