Education

Scholarship reduction for 2018

IT has surfaced that overseas scholarships for next year, 2018 will perhaps be reduced. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) Permanent Secretary highlighted this during last week’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing. “As of next year, we would like to see reduction in the number of scholarship that will be available to students wanting to go overseas,” the ministry’s permanent secretary Dr Franco Rodie said. He said the government sends students to regional universities such as in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and lately in the Philippines based on the opportunity list and the skills that are required

A recently established literacy organisation in the Solomon Islands has won Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s heart for its mission to battle the country’s high illiteracy rate by providing literacy classes

TEACHERS of Taro Primary School and Poroporo Primary School of Northwest Choiseul were blessed with a three-day training on literacy from 3rd July to 5th July. Literacy Teacher Trainer for

…Huge number of students from USP heading back A good number of students studying at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji and perhaps Vanuatu under government

Minister reveals system abused, Ministry calls for review THE Ministry of Finance and Treasury has disclosed that the process in obtaining government tertiary scholarships was abused and that government

NURSE Aide students of Solomon Islands National University (SINU) have successfully completed a bridging programme which qualifies them to enroll for the Diploma Nursing programme. A total of 36 Nurse

THE Parliamentary Opposition Group has called on the Government to seriously review all arrangements in sending our students to AMA Computer University in Philippines for studies. In a statement yesterday,

SOLOMON Islands Government SIG-sponsored students in Fiji are feeling the brunt of the country’s cash-flow problem. Halfway through June and they are still waiting for their monthly allowance, facing an

TEAM Woodford International School (WIS) will represent Solomon Islands in the United States in the field of competitive robotic building next month. The team of four dedicated science and technology

THE Woodford International School students bound for the United States are proud to represent the Solomon Islands in the world stage. The team was put together eight weeks ago, the

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