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Universities in Papua New Guinea are looking to fill vacant spots in some degrees after a 50 per cent spike in the number of Year 12 students who failed high school in 2020.
Education authorities have blamed COVID-19 for the disappointing results, saying the school year was disrupted by months of lockdown.
More than 6000 students did not pass their final exams, compared with about 4000 the previous year.
University of Papua New Guinea vice chancellor Professor Frank Griffin said he hoped it was a one-off scenario. We were only dealing with a year that that was very much disrupted by a global pandemic, and that led to the students not performing as they were expected to, Professor Griffin said.