Daniel Timbol from Komb Village in Lai Valley, Mendi-Munihu district of Southern Highlands Province, was recently appointed as the new secondary school inspector for Southern Highlands Province. Timbol is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church and a teacher by profession who specializes in teaching mathematics for grade nine, ten, eleven, and twelve in secondary level. He started his teaching career straight after graduating from the University of Goroka in 2000. He joined Kutubu High School teaching staff now known as Kutubu Secondary School, where he taught mathematics for two decades. He was then promoted to Deputy Principal Academic (DPA) in 2014. Timbol while DPA at Kutubu Secondary, was recognized by the Southern Highlands Education Board as the best DPA in terms of discipline and positive moral support for the school. He was presented a laptop by the Highlands Regional Education Director, Aloesis Rema in support from the former Southern Highlands Education Advisor Joel Raitano in 2015 who had recognized his potential. The education board promoted him to a principal position in 2020 to Nipa Secondary School, located in a politically divest region. From there, he then led the school from 2020 to 2023, and in early this year 2024, he was accepted and appointed as pioneer Deputy Principal for Mendi Day Secondary. After seeing the potential in him, Member for Mendi Raphel Tonpi then asked him to head Lai Valley Technical Junior High school. Whilst there, he then applied for the inspector position and was appointed as the new secondary school inspector for Southern Highlands province. Timbol told PNG HAUSBUNG that he was amongst other applicants who had also applied for this position and successfully attained the role. “I applied for the position, just like many other principals of equals from within Southern Highlands and based upon the merit I was offered the position.” Furthermore, Timbol will now work alongside the existing standard officer Peter Olohand to maintain standards of education in the province and the country as a whole.