Results for Education

The Queensland Tongan Language School announced it will hold classes for the first-time next year at a launch on Saturday, 16 November at Highgate Hill, Brisbane, Australia. Classes will be held at Griffith University Logan campus on Saturdays.

Dr Tangikina Moimoi Steen has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer for the Ministry of Education and Training for two-years, starting on November 11.

Tongan people are gifted with strong language learning talents, the Chinese Charge’d Affaires to Tonga noted, during a China Day event held for Chinese language students and teachers from Tonga High School and Tonga College on October 23 in Nuku'alofa.

New Zealand’s oldest school, Wesley College, is trying to track down former students from Tonga to join in celebrations of its 175th anniversary in Auckland on 26-27 October.

Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, is being taught to Tongan students this week in workshops conducted by Sydney based Japanese artist, Midori Furze, in Nuku’alofa.

Fifty students at the Nuku‘alofa Government Primary School received new Japanese school bags gifted by the people of Kuroshio Town in Kochi and presented on July 18.

Books4Tonga is seeking people in villages to help establish more libraries in Tonga and the charity will supply the books aimed to help people improve their English reading and writing.

Dare to Dream Foundation Inc, which aims to help Tongan Deportees and vulnerable Tongan youths was launched on Saturday 1 June at Masi‘ata Beach, Kolovai.

Children with specific learning needs will be helped with early literacy skills development using Tongan language alphabet flashcards developed for the schools they attend. Funded by by Australia's Direct Aid Program, 400 packs of flashcards were printed for distribution under the Ministry of Education's Inclusive Education programmes.