Institution vows to meet requirement<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): An educational institution said yesterday it
\nwould continue with its management training while trying to
\nincrease its faculty members as requested by the Ministry of
\nEducation and Culture.<\/p>\n
The ministry's office for higher education last week announced
\nit would not accept applications to register new students of the
\nInstitute Pengembangan Wiraswasta Indonesia (Indonesian Institute
\nfor the Development of Entrepreneurship, IPWI). IPWI was also not
\nto accept any more students.<\/p>\n
"The institution's activities will continue while we seek more
\nlecturers," Kartomo, the institute's executive chairman, said
\nFriday.<\/p>\n
Students of private higher learning institutes must be
\nregistered with the ministry's office to be eligible to sit for
\nstate university tests.<\/p>\n
The ministry said it would not register more IPWI students
\nbecause the institution had failed to comply with the requirement
\nof one lecturer to every 20 students.<\/p>\n
The institution was found to have only one lecturer to every
\n100 students. The ministry then turned down IPWI's registration
\napplications for 1,000 new students.<\/p>\n
Kartomo said the institution had met with a ministry official,
\nand that IPWI had been given one year to employ more lecturers.<\/p>\n
Kartomo said IPWI had 4,500 students which included
\nunregistered students.<\/p>\n
Established in 1990, 1,600 people had graduated from the
\ninstitution, most of whom were government officials.<\/p>\n
The minister's director of higher learning, Joetata
\nHadihardaja, also rejected the registration of IPWI students in
\nits provincial programs.<\/p>\n
The chairman of the institute's foundation, Soemitro, said
\ntheir management programs also lacked requisites set by the
\nministry.<\/p>\n
Higher education programs in provinces must have at least four
\npermanent lecturers with doctorate degrees and two with master's
\ndegrees.<\/p>\n
Soemitro said it was difficult to find provincial lecturers
\nwith doctorate degrees who had time to teach. (03)<\/p>",
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