work progress

John and I saw the Pro VC Academic on Monday at which meeting I told him I needed to be working with Departments to get courses written and so he set up meetings with the Language Faculty and got John to work around the other faculties to determine which course we could get operating with my help. John and I met with Olive and Justin and Luke I think it was and we discussed how we could proceed and so at least we have a plan to get me involved. I will begin inservicing them and hopefully up to about a dozen staff from Agriculture and Mining in the next week or so. There are so many issues - such as if Language gets courses out to students, is this going to be the total of courses that the Univ offers by distance mode. We need lots of clarification from the Pro VC but he is very supportive - he's attended numerous Distance Learning courses himself and written his ideas for externalising engineering courses. He comes from Bangladesh himself where External is the most cost effective way for university to go. As for Justin's Faculty, they are keen to extend education by distance means because they want to see education in the minds of their countrymen so they see it as a civic duty. As Robert told me recnetly there are three types who come to PNG - missionaries, mercenaries and misfits. We still need people who have the care for the other in mind.
The frogs have been excited with the damp conditions - Pe Drr ...pe drr... pe drr or Den vrr... den vrr they croak. Then the birds this morning were chirping You can't come...through here. You can't come... through here.