New Hebrides

Education On The

March In The

A New Zealand firm of archi* tects has been engaged by the British Administration in the New Hebrides to design a Gov ernment secondary school in Vila near the site of Kawenu

Teacher Training College.

THE firm is Warren and Mahoney, °f Christchurch, winner of a New Zealand medal for architectural design.

The British Educational Advisory Committee, headed by the Senior Educational Officer, Mr. Albert Fowler, and representatives of the five Protestant missions which run English-speaking schools in the New Hebrides, proposed some two years ago that the Administration should build a secondary school as part of a plan to raise the standard of educa tion in the Group.

Now, the Advisory Committee is seeking the appointment of British Education Officers in each of the four administrative districts of the New Hebrides, together with more New Hebridean Assistant Education Officers.

A meeting of the committee, at which these matters were discussed, was held in Vila from May 11 to 16.

A few days later, a new joint Government and Presbyterian school was opened at Emau, a small island off the northern coast of Efate. The school was built by the Presbyterian Church with the help of Government funds.

The Condominium Government is to provide a subsidy of £38,000 for education in the Group for the year 1964-65. This is equivalent to £3 for each child at present at school.

These pictures, taken by Fiji PRO photographer Rob Wright, illustrate facets of education in the New Hebrides. Top is Kawenu College, just outside Vila, where promising students are trained as teachers. The middle picture shows the sole Euro pean pupil at a French school at Isangel, Tanna. {She is the daughter of a French worker employed by the Administration.) Below is the Isangel school.