HISTORY:

Port Business College was not the name given since its first day of existing. It was a Secretarial College back in early 1970's (1972-1974). The transition period from a Secretarial College to what it is no has brought about drastic changes in the curriculum and the number of student intake. It also forced the College Governing Council to seek donor funding to construct houses to accommodate its growing number of staff every year.

                              Port Moresby Business College is one of the oldest institutions that has been contributing to the development of Papua New Guinean's human resources. The College was initially operated has secretarial college until December 1986. In 1987, the Department of Education accorded it a Business College status as a result of implementations on its rationalization policy on education.

                                 At the College there is a long tradition of innovative teaching and learning geared towards the need of modern industry, business and society as a whole. In terms of pedagogical philosophy and implementation strategies the following are the activities;
  • Delivering the programs and courses through lectures tutorial, workshop, case studies, computer simulations, projects etc.
  • Giving assignment ,tests and other preparatory exercises.
  • Maintaining the highest service quality programs delivery and students services
  • Maintaining the most affordable tuition fees consonant with the standard of quality of services offered.
  • Building a national institutional capacity for a sustainable program of high level human resource development.

The college will pursue it's development strategies through a judicious blend of, on one hand partial autonomy in academic program delivery & on the other hand dependent affiliation internationally renown universities and locally established tertiary institutions for the academic awards.

                      The project submission is in-line with the College's Five Year Strategic Management Plan (2006-2010). This is derived form the TVET Policy - Rational & Action Plan, p;30,3.3.11 Physical Resources, the National Education Plan (NEP) (2005-2014) and the Medium Term Development Strategy (MTDS) (2005-2010)