Institution vows to meet requirement

Institution vows to meet requirement

JAKARTA (JP): An educational institution said yesterday it
would continue with its management training while trying to
increase its faculty members as requested by the Ministry of
Education and Culture.

The ministry's office for higher education last week announced
it would not accept applications to register new students of the
Institute Pengembangan Wiraswasta Indonesia (Indonesian Institute
for the Development of Entrepreneurship, IPWI). IPWI was also not
to accept any more students.

"The institution's activities will continue while we seek more
lecturers," Kartomo, the institute's executive chairman, said
Friday.

Students of private higher learning institutes must be
registered with the ministry's office to be eligible to sit for
state university tests.

The ministry said it would not register more IPWI students
because the institution had failed to comply with the requirement
of one lecturer to every 20 students.

The institution was found to have only one lecturer to every
100 students. The ministry then turned down IPWI's registration
applications for 1,000 new students.

Kartomo said the institution had met with a ministry official,
and that IPWI had been given one year to employ more lecturers.

Kartomo said IPWI had 4,500 students which included
unregistered students.

Established in 1990, 1,600 people had graduated from the
institution, most of whom were government officials.

The minister's director of higher learning, Joetata
Hadihardaja, also rejected the registration of IPWI students in
its provincial programs.

The chairman of the institute's foundation, Soemitro, said
their management programs also lacked requisites set by the
ministry.

Higher education programs in provinces must have at least four
permanent lecturers with doctorate degrees and two with master's
degrees.

Soemitro said it was difficult to find provincial lecturers
with doctorate degrees who had time to teach. (03)