Triggered by the PNJ Strategic Planning targetting all educational staff holding S2 degree, and the need of staff in enrolling for their S2/S3 programs which require certain score of TOEFL and TPA, we need to thank the Director of State Polytechnic of Jakarta who has initiated classes for TOEFL and TPA. These programs are aimed to staff who still hold S1 degree. They are motivated to take further study as we all know that holding S2 degree is  one requirement to be a higher education lecturer.
    Both programs are handled by UI. The TOEFL programs are rendered by FIB-UI as a partner of UP2B PNJ while TPA is carried out by an institution which is also organized by personnel from UI. This is to emphasize that management of PNJ  intention in staff development is serious and this of course has to be responded positively by the participants.   TOEFL programs will last in July 2009 and TPA will end in June 2009.
There are many candidates  interested in both programs which shows the eagerness of our staff in not only continuing their study to gain higher degrees, but also maintaining their knowledge and skills. There were more or less one hundred candidates who applied for the programs, however, due to the limited capacity, then only four TOEFL groups are conducted for this term and 50 staff are allowed to follow TPA class.
The first group of TOEFL class started middle April 2009 while TPA class started in May. These classes consist of staff who are projected to attend SIMAK UI on July 12, and the other three TOEFL groups were started two weeks later. The programs run well. The only problem arises is the attendance which we have to understand as all of the participants are lecturers, and some have positions in management so that it is not easy to have full classes in each session. This is also resulted from the schedule which was developed in the middle of the academic year.
    Most of the participants think that the programs both TOEFL and TPA are beneficial, not only because of their intention to have the enrolment test for their further studies, but also they consider them as a review to the knowledge long been forgotten.
    This  is a lesson both for the organizer and the participants, and this certainly should be improved. We believe that these programs will be beneficial not only for the participants but also for the institution.   Finally we may hope that this kind of programs will always be supported by our management and be responded positively by staff.