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Fiji Call for Education Funding Shake-up |
| Source: |
undpi.org |
| Source Date: |
Monday, February 07, 2011 |
| Focus: |
ICT for MDGs
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| Country: |
Fiji |
| Created: |
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Fiji's government should fully fund basic primary education, a school management group says.
It declared this would be a way for the nation to reach the United Nations' millennium development goals by the deadline.
A UN summit in September last year adopted a global action plan to achieve eight anti-poverty goals by 2015.
About 95 per cent of schools in Fiji are built and owned by community groups.
The Fiji government pays schools about $30 a year for each student, while each family has to pay $10 a child.
The president of the Schools Management Association, Govind Singh, said the minimal amount of money means teachers have to take many short cuts.
Children missed out in this scenario, he said.
"At the moment, because these schools are run by these individual committees, they have to charge some fee to keep some of these scohools going, because government provides only $30 per child per annum, which is grossly inadequate to provide quality education to children."
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