Results for Education

Tonga High School Head Girl, Sulia He 'I Vakaola Ilangana (18), was named the Dux of Tonga High School for 2025, after achieving top marks in Form 7 Chemistry and Biology.

‘Atenisi University celebrated its 50th anniversary (1975-2025) on Saturday, with a graduation ceremony for the class of 2025, in Nuku'alofa. The Dux 2025, Olivia Lolohea, said her grandfather, the late Professor ‘Ilaisa Futa Helu, founder of 'Atenisi, “...called us to cultivate independant thought - to question, to reason and to analyze. That is the gift of 'Atenisi, a place where critical inquiry is the core.”

Over 3,400 senior students throughout Tonga are sitting their national exams, including Form 5 students who have been brought back into the Tonga School Certificate (TSC) national examination.

'Eua High School students won the Form 6 and open categories of the 2025 Japanese Speech Contest on Friday, 12 September at Tailulu College Hall, Nuku'alofa. The Form 5 level was won by Mele’unga Lolohea of Tailulu College and Form 4 by Mauiana Lemoto of Tonga High School.

A five-year initiative aimed at strengthening climate resilience within Tonga's education system was launched by the Government and Save the Children Tonga in an official partnership agreement signing on 20 August in Nuku'alofa.

‘Okusitino Tae (Tino), graduated on 9 May, from Northern Illinois University in the United States, with a Master of Arts degree in Anthropology, Linguistics and Cognitive Studies. Back in 2020 he was the ‘Atenisi Institute dux graduate, and at the time it took 21 months of navigating through COVID-19 restrictions for him to get a student visa to begin studying in the USA.

A set of new reading applications (apps) designed for children in both Tongan and English and developed locally, offer over 100 culturally-relevant books across various difficulty levels, topics, and genres. Titled “Tau Laukonga” the reading apps, were developed by United States Peace Corps volunteer, Andrew Pavey, in partnership with an American NGO “Friends of Tonga”, Tonga's Ministry of Education and Training’s Curriculum Development Unit, and the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga Education Department.

Chess Grandmaster, Mr. Nigel Short, MBE, from the United Kingdom, visited Ocean of Light International School, today, and gave a lecture for students, to help develop chess in school programmes in Tonga.

The first Vice Chancellor for the Tonga National University (TNU), Dr Giulio Masasso Tu’ikolongahau Pāunga, was appointed by the council in Nuku’alofa, recently.