SHORT HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE

PORT MORESBY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

The college was officially opened in 1947 and was in those days a Technical Training Center. Today Port Moresby Technical College is one of the four main Technical College in the country (there are also three Business Colleges) and it specializes in ten trades. In the 1980s the main course programme was the PETT or Pre-Employment Technical Training Certificate. This course taught one single skill and the entry level was Grade 10. In the 1990s a new course was developed and that was known as the Technical Training Certificate course and entry level was Grade 12.

Now there have been further developments and a series of courses are being developed and are simply known as National Certificate and they range from National Certificate 1 (NC1) at basic knowledge level to National Certificate 6 which is National Advanced Diploma (NAD) level.