Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 7

Educational Adviser

p. 139 · Read in the full issue

Page 139139

Visits Auckland

AT the request of the Tonga education authorities a senior education officer in New Zealand, Mr. C. T. Ford, of Canterbury University College, has recently been visiting Tonga.

He has been asked to advise on an improved scheme for the selec tion of Tongan students for higher education in New Zealand. The announcement implied that an un satisfactorily high percentage of students go to New Zealand for Zealand do not make satisfactory progress.

Between 20 and 30 Tongan students go to New Zealand for higher education each year.

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