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Monday 28 October 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Eighteen students from Tupou College Toloa are pioneering the first Australian-accredited Form 7 exam in Tonga, called the Higher School Certificate (HSC).
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Friday 11 October 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The University of the South Pacific celebrated the achievements of 145 graduates of its Tonga Campus today, 11 October, at Falemasiva Hall, in Havelu, Tongatapu.
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Thursday 19 September 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Queen Salote College made their debut in the annual Japanese Speech Competition for schools, and won two first prizes for the form 4 and 5 levels. The contest was held at the St. Andrew High School Hall on Friday 13 September. Seven schools in Tonga are now teaching the Japanese language.
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Monday 9 September 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Over 200 graduates from Tupou Tertiary Institute of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, received their academic awards, presented by HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita on Saturday 7 September in Nuku'alofa.
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Tuesday 18 June 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Minister for Finance, Hon. Tiofilusi Tiueti announced a series of initiatives aimed at enhancing support to the education and health sectors during his budget speech at the Legislative Assembly on June 12. A total of $113.4 million is allocated to Education to support the implementation of activities under the Government priority agenda 4: 'Improving education for all’. A total of $78.9 million is allocated to Health, to support the implementation of activities under the Government priority agenda 5: 'Improving access to quality and affordable healthcare’.
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Thursday 13 June 2024

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
All Government secondary schools’ students Form 3 to form 5 will study for free in 2025, as proposed in the new budget plan for Education, for FY 2024-25, read by the Minister of Finance in Parliament yesterday, 12 June.
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Tuesday 11 June 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Under a project designed for "Empowering young girls for economic resilience", a newly renovated sewing hub was launched at St Joseph’s Community College in Ha’apai yesterday, 10 June 2024.
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Friday 17 May 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A hundred laptops, with laptop bags, mouse sets, and operating systems, were received by the Government on 16 May, donated by the Dongguan Municipal Government.
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Friday 10 May 2024
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Matatoa-Tofoa, Tonga
HM King Tupou VI cut a ribbon, to officially open a new school for the Siasi 'O Tonga (Church of Tonga) at Matatoa, Tongatapu today, 10 May 2024.
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Thursday 9 May 2024
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Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Patelisio Na’a Patelisio graduated with a master of Public Health with first class honours, from the University of Auckland on 7 May 2024, for his research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Pacific Children. Dr Patelisio's own post-traumatic stress following the volcanic eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai on 15 January 2022, inspired his masters research.
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Monday 29 April 2024
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Pangaimotu, Vava'u
A new classroom building for a kindergarten at Pangaimotu in Vava'u, was handed over by the Ambassador of Japan to Tonga, HE Mr Inagaki Hisao, on 24 April 2024.
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Friday 12 April 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A new program to inspire young women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics (STEAM) is supported by the US government. The first STEAM Princess camp in Tonga was launched by the US Ambassador Marie C. Damour on 10 April at the USP-Tonga campus
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Wednesday 10 April 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Three Samsung sponsored digital classrooms were opened today, 10 April, at Tonga High School, Queen Salote College and Tonga College ‘Atele, on Tongatapu.
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Thursday 21 March 2024

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
‘Atenisi senior lecturer, Vasalua Jenner-Helu, has been accepted as a Visiting Academic in Linguistics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom for three months at the end of the year, where she intends to research chauvinist attitudes towards Austronesian language among 19th century British linguists, supporting a forthcoming PhD thesis focusing on the compromise of the Tongan language by European missionaries.
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Wednesday 31 January 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Queen Salote College has closed its boarding school for the academic year 2024, due to major renovations of their boarding houses, which is expected to start early in March.
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Friday 26 January 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
About 400 Tongan students have graduated from China’s universities under the Chinese government scholarships, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy Mr Ruan Dewen said at an event to mark International Education Day in Tonga.
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Monday 15 January 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Form Six Certificate 2023 exam results, released last week, showed the overall Form Six passing rates increased to 51% compared to 33% in 2022. The best performing school was ‘Eua High School with an 88% pass rate.
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Friday 5 January 2024

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The best performing schools for the Tonga National Form Seven Certificate (TNFSC) 2023 exams were Niuatoputapu High School and Niuafo‘ou High School, who both achieved a passing rate of 100%, the Prime Minister Hon. Hu'akavameiliku said today.
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Tuesday 19 December 2023
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Dunedin, New Zealand
Iki Mafi Uele, who graduated as a Doctorate of Accounting on 16 December, becomes the first Pacific lecturer in the Accountancy and Finance Department, at the University of Otago New Zealand Business School (OBS). Iki, the son of a fruit farmer and weaver, from Fakakakai, Ha’apai, was the dux of Tonga College in 2021.
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Wednesday 6 December 2023
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tonga will be among the first beneficiaries of the BRACE Project, a US$70 million dollar investment launched at COP28, to help build climate resilience in schools. The project aims to construct climate-resilient schools, with an initial focus on Tonga, Cambodia, and South Sudan, as pilot countries, to benefit four million safer schoolchildren, setting a precedent for global collaboration toward a resilient educational future.
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