New education system in the making [1]
Saturday, February 27, 1999 - 09:40. Updated on Friday, January 8, 2016 - 13:48.
From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 1, January 1999.
Iosefa Maiava, the Deputy Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat visited Tonga during the first week of February to talk with local officials and to hold post Forum consultation meetings before the next Forum meeting to be held in Palau at the end of September and early October.
Iosefa was accompanied by the Forum Secretariat Press Secretary, Ulafala Aiavao.
Iosefa said that while in Tonga they were also to formalise a new education system that was proposed by Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Hu‘akavameiliku. The new system will enable students to acquire skills so that they can take advantage of the new information technology.