I was reading an online article on the Fiji Times about a 75th annual meeting of the Fijian Teachers Association at the Suva Civic Auditorium where the chief guest Mr. McCullock gave a speech.
What striked me was what he said. He said that 20% of Fiji's national budget actually goes to education and out of that only 16% goes to tertiary education and that there was a need to invest into higher education in order to improve skilled workers to give back to the economy. He said that our Pacific Islands has become poorer than 10 years ago due to the rates of students in secondary schools being low and getting into tertiary level becomes lower. And brain drain has increased as there has been lack of financial investment into education. He said Fiji had good tertiary institutions but the standards of institutions needed to increase.
Is the rate of education in tertiary institutions becoming lower due to lack of investments or is it because students just don't take education seriously?
hmmmm, i think that is abit of both, but u know what, if there was as much time, money and emphasis placed on or invested in, "education" in schools as sports.....it would definitely be a different story!
ReplyDeletenah i think there is a lot of emphasis on education in schools! but its just that most students are not taking it seriously!
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