New uni to not accommodate students

By MATTHEW VARI

Sunday, January 22, 2017 (PNG)

WITH the student unrests of 2016 still vivid- new entrant into the university fraternity, the IBS University, will not settle to accommodate student on its Mt Eriama main campus on the outskirts of Port Moresby.

The decision was made know by the private university’s founder and Chancellor Mick Nades, citing the destruction of state infrastructure at two major universities in the capital and in Lae last year as precursors to the decision.

“We are a little bit sensitive about accommodation in the campus, because of the obvious reason of what happened last year and the years before at Unitech (University of Technology) and UPNG (University of Papua New Guinea), and having students in the campus is a big question mark,” Nades said.

He, however, pointed out that with the obvious need to accommodate student from outside centers, household room letting (renting) will be encouraged by the institution for its students that will also create income generation for household taking part.

“What we are actually promoting is actually letting, a number of small households in Papua New Guinean owned places they have a bedroom probably underneath the house they have spaces made into three or four bedrooms and offer accommodation to our students.”

“That’s what we call be letting and more and more Papua New Guineans are coming and putting their names to provide accommodation and that is actually helping small families in getting extra income at the same time the students are living under a safe security situation.”