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salty222
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 Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: Teaching on Papua New Guinea |
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Greetings,
I'm wanting to go to Papua New Guinea in the next couple years and teach.
I don't see a lot of posting for this province and was wondering if they even had the need for teachers there.
If anyone could help me out, or point me in the right direction of people to contact, that would be much appreciated.
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| salty22 wrote: |
I'm wanting to go to Papua New Guinea in the next couple years and teach.
I don't see a lot of posting for this province |
Papua New Guinea (the eastern part of the island) is an independent nation, not a province!
Most of the western part of the island is now called Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). It is the largest province of Indonesia. A tiny bit of the western part of the island is now known as West Papua or West Irian Jaya, also an Indonesian province (the smallest).
Hope this helps! |
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Atoms for Peace
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
Most of the western part of the island is now called Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). It is the largest province of Indonesia. A tiny bit of the western part of the island is now known as West Papua or West Irian Jaya, also an Indonesian province (the smallest).
Hope this helps! |
Actually it's the fifth largest  |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Atoms for Peace wrote: |
| Actually it's the fifth largest |
Which provinces are larger?
Correction to my post: West Papua is the smallest province in terms of population. |
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laughing_magpie06
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Henry is correct. To the naked eye only Sumatra comes close in size. On the other side of the ledger Java is quite small but contains around half the entire nation's population. |
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Atoms for Peace
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| laughing_magpie06 wrote: |
| Henry is correct. To the naked eye only Sumatra comes close in size. On the other side of the ledger Java is quite small but contains around half the entire nation's population. |
<sigh> Sumatra and Java are islands, not provinces. Yes, West Papua has the smallest population. It was created partly as a result of Indonesia's divide and conquer policy to keep a firmer grip on Papua and partly to pay off greedy locals after lucrative jobs as officials in the new province. Plans to further divide Papua have not yet materialized.
By the way, Papua, and East, West and Central Kalimantan provinces are bigger than West Papua. |
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laughing_magpie06
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Sorry atoms, I stand corrected. It was early when I wrote that post.
On an interesting sidenote if the gentleman in question does end up going to PNG, it was once administered by Australia and as such has Aussie Rules and Rugby League as it's two major sports. They have an international Rugby League team which plays razzle dazzle footy on it's day. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Atoms for Peace wrote: |
| <sigh> Sumatra and Java are islands, not provinces. |
I see that I forgot to add a <sigh> when I responded to the "fifth largest" province comment.  |
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skunksounds
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry Salty. Apparently you are out of luck. It appears that most people on this forum would rather correct each others statements than put forth any USEFUL information. I have had this same problem before in prior posts. I hope someone will eventually come through for you! |
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Atoms for Peace
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
| Atoms for Peace wrote: |
| <sigh> Sumatra and Java are islands, not provinces. |
I see that I forgot to add a <sigh> when I responded to the "fifth largest" province comment. |
<sigh> Don't let it happen again  |
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lensman
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| skunksounds wrote: |
| Sorry Salty. Apparently you are out of luck. It appears that most people on this forum would rather correct each others statements than put forth any USEFUL information. I have had this same problem before in prior posts. I hope someone will eventually come through for you! |
Before anyone can provide useful information, the OP needs to tell us whether he is talking about Papua New Guinea which is an independent nation and not part of Indonesia.
Or Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya which is a province of Indonesia.
In PNG, English is the language of instruction in high schools and unis. You would have to be a qualified teacher to work there. There are no �EF� type schools that I am aware of.
In Papua (Indonesia) the government don�t want interfering foreigners giving the locals dangerous ideas about democracy and independence. I doubt there will be any ESL work available. |
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father Mackenzie
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
You could look here, it might be a start for you.
http://www.eslbase.com/schools/papua-new-guinea
If you are staying in Papua, there are some private English schools. There is an EF in Jayapura if thats any help.
Good luck with your searching. |
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spunkmonkey
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject: * |
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It seems that you guys will argue over absolutely anything.
I suspect that you really don't have much of a life  |
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lensman
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: * |
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| spunkmonkey wrote: |
It seems that you guys will argue over absolutely anything.
I suspect that you really don't have much of a life |
Life...be out of it. |
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laughing_magpie06
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Life...be out of it. |
hehehehe you had to live in Australia in the 1970s to remember that commercial and slogan. Norm and Libby. Reminded me of Homer and Marge but the Aussie versions. |
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