GOVERNMENT URGES STUDENTS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ASSISTANCE

16/02/2012

The Minister for Education is urging students and parents to take advantage of the assistance provided by Government towards the education sector in the country.

Minister Filipe Bole made the call during his tour this week to schools in Suva, along with senior officials from the Ministry of Educations to look at the progress achieved by these schools and to discuss common concerns and challenges.

During a visit to Rishikul Sanatan college, Mr Bole thanked the school management for increasing the number of streams for Form 3 to five this year to accommodate more students.
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Ministry of Education officials and teachers of Rishikul College in a meeting with the Minister

The minister also congratulated the teachers and the students for achieving good exam results in the 2011 external examinations.

“The pass rate for Form 6 last year was 84.3 per cent which shows that Rishikul Sanatan is a high performing school. A lot of students passed with more than 250+ out of 400 in the Fiji School Leaving Certificate Examination. Similarly, the percentage pass rate for Form 7 was 93.2 with 35 students scoring more than 300 in the Fiji Seventh Form Examination”, Mr Bole said.

Mr Bole also highlighted that there are 39 secondary schools in the Suva-Nausori corridor and Rishikul Sanatan is one of the nine that fall in the high performing category.

The school roll of Rishikul Sanatan College is 1100.

Mr Bole and his team also visited Assemblies of God High School, DAV Girls College and Nabua Secondary School yesterday.

The minister will continue his visit to three other secondary schools tomorrow.
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Mr Filipe Bole meeting one of the teachers of Rishikul Sanatan College