NIUGINI OUTLOOK
Many on the social media were fooled by UPNG Academic Senates' news release on Tuesday, thinking that the unthinkable had happened - that the Academic Senate had cancelled the school year, with all the fallout that would come from that. Let's start with what happens to next Year's incoming Year 1 students. Let this years repeat? If not, then exclude this year's Year 2, 3 and 4 students? Can't do that! Probably they would try to double up 2 year's worth of year 1 students which would be chaotic at best. That's why the Department of Higher Education is mortified by the prospects of the school year being cancelled.
The school year wasn't cancelled yesterday. Neither was Semester 1 cancelled. It was formally suspended. Of course, it has been informally suspended for 3 weeks now, so why bother announcing this? The reason was to try and frighten the students and their parents into coming back to class.
As usual, the Academic Senate and Albert Mellam are completely out of touch with reality. The students aren't buying it.
Another reason for making the announcement of course, was to kick all students off campus. We have been predicting this all along that they wanted to get all the boycotting students off campus, use police to secure the campus, then only let in "well behaved" students that swore off the boycott after that.
We were right because our informants gave us accurate inside information. That's what the administration always had in mind.
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