Minister launches free TVET textbooks

14/04/2011

The Education Minister, Mr Filipe Bole launched seven Technical and Vocational Education Training textbooks on Monday.

These textbooks will be distributed freely to secondary schools in Fiji.

“This is a historic event and I am proud to be here to witness it. Books are engines of change and progress indeed for TVET because this is the first batch of textbooks produced by the section for free distribution to secondary school,” Mr Bole said.

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The seven textbooks which are Basic Technology, Agricultural Science, Home Economics, Office Technology, Applied Technology, Technical Drawing and Introduction to Technology are being used by Forms 3, 5 and 7.

Mr Bole called on principals and teachers to take great care of the free textbooks as the same textbooks would have its second round of distribution in five years time.

Around 23,410 of these textbooks have been distributed to secondary schools.

More textbooks on other academic subjects will be ready for distribution in secondary  schools in June this year.