£23.000 For Education
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Research
In Fiji & Wphc
AN Educational Research Insti tute is being set up in Suva, Fiji. At present it will occupy premises in Carpenter’s Buildings;
later it will erect a building of its own. It is being assisted by a Colonial Development Grant of £23,000.
Mr. R. S. Adam, formerly of the Teachers’ Training College, Nasinu, has been appointed principal. He will have an Indian and a Fijian assistant.
This gem of officialese as U purpose was issued with announcement that the Inst had come into existence: “Accordingly, the staff of the stitute will first undertake rese into the question of selection secondary school pupils) ultimately, as the result of the perience thus gained, into the s of teaching method and the cor of the curriculum, in their app tion to the many linguistic gr both in Fiji and the Western Ps High Commission territories, wi view to the ultimate productio courses of study and the neces textbooks for such courses b upon local needs and condition This may not make the purpos the Institute very clear to the man, but as the Colonial Dev« ment Fund’s share of the coj £23,000, obviously the creatioi such an institution is consid very important.
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Star, a scholarship winner 1 Nauru, arrived back in Aust] from Nauru with 10 other Nam secondary school boys, in Jam Willie is a pupil of Knox Gram School, Sydney. He is a sergear the school band, plays the bagp and wears “the kilt and everyth!