Trainers, tutors and support staff
Behind every program at MTC is a team of tradespeople, lecturers and administrators who keep the college running and the standards up.
A trade college lives or dies on who is standing in the workshop. Our trade trainers are people who have done the work — wired the switchboards, pulled the engines apart, laid the pipework — before they came here to teach it. That matters, because a student can tell within a week whether the person in front of them has actually done the job.
On the professional side, our lecturers in accounting, business, computing and human resource management teach to the same principle: what an employer in Papua New Guinea will actually expect of a graduate on their first Monday morning.
Around them sits the team most students never think about until they need it — admissions, student records, boarding, finance and the office staff who answer the phone when a parent in another province rings to ask how their child is getting on.
Eleven people at Togoba
The staff who teach, administer and support students at the Togoba campus.
The Principal is named; the other ten names and positions are still placeholders. Nine of them read simply “Position”.
To complete the page, edit it in Elementor and replace each remaining name and position with the real one. The eleven portraits are small crops taken from the staff group photograph, so they are low resolution — individual photographs should replace them when the office has them, including a posed portrait of the Principal.
If the college has fewer or more than eleven staff to list, delete or duplicate a card in the grid rather than leaving an empty one showing.
Four parts of one college
The team divides roughly into four, and most students will deal with all of them at some point.
Trade trainers
Our six trades run at National Certificate Level 1, with Level 2 in three of them, and each is taught by someone who has worked in it. Trade training is hands-on by necessity — the workshop is the classroom, and the trainer is on the floor with the students rather than at the front of a room.
Business and professional lecturers
Accounting, business administration, business management, computing and information technology, human resource management and project management — taught from Certificate IV through to Diploma, and pitched at what a Papua New Guinean employer actually expects of a graduate.
Admissions and student records
The office that receives applications, checks entry requirements, issues Offer IDs and publishes the acceptance lists. They are also the people who answer the phone when an applicant cannot get the online form to work.
Boarding and student support
Boarding students live on campus at Togoba, many of them a long way from home and some of them a long way from home for the first time. The staff who run the boarding houses and support student welfare are a large part of why that works.
What we ask of our own staff
Our motto is to develop and promote a disciplined workforce. It would be an empty thing to hold students to that and not hold ourselves to it.
Turn up and be prepared. A workshop session that starts late or without the right materials teaches students exactly the wrong lesson about how work is done.
Teach to the job, not to the syllabus. The test of any lesson here is whether it makes a graduate more useful to an employer on their first day.
Treat every student the same. School leavers and non-school leavers, women and men, day and boarding students — the same standard applies to all of them, and it applies regardless of who anyone knows.
Speak to the college
Whether you are applying, sponsoring a student or enquiring on behalf of an organisation, the office will point you to the right person.