Results for Education

Two locally recruited engineering student employed by the Palu Aviation Services in Tonga have excelled in aircraft engineering after undergoing further training in New Zealand.

Tonga's Ministry of Education received $560,770 for the development of two important programs for the disabled, special needs and pre-school children, yesterday from the PRIDE project.

Ta Kupesi, is the poetic title for a new book of research undertaken by 12 Tongan educators into various aspects of education in Tonga.

Stressed by a critical teacher shortage Tonga's Ministry of Education now wants to hire 85 new teachers to fill some of the vacancies left by the 227 staff and teachers who accepted the government's voluntary redundancy package on June 30.

A working board to address grievances of Tongan Government school teachers met for the first time today, just in time to head off threatened strike action by some teachers at the start of the new school term.

The pass rate for all of Tonga's senior students sitting major examinations in 2005 has remained the same as the previous year, but the results announced last week showed that while independent schools' results have improved, the government schools' pass rates have dropped.

Deanne Seini Fakalolo Kiana Puloka (18) of Lotoha...’apai, made local history on Tuesday, when she became the dux of Tonga High school, Tonga's premier high school, for the second year in a row.

The Tonga Education Support Program (TESP), which was to be launched today September 19, has been deferred to mid-November, because of the need to meet new salary increases for civil servants.

All striking teachers returned to work this morning in Tongatapu, according to Viliami Takau, the Director of Education.