Education

BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THE number of SIG-students terminated has dropped significantly this year, semester 1. Education Ministry (MEHRD) Permanent Secretary tells Island Sun that this semester’s number of terminated students is the lowest ever. Every year, the...

BY BARNABAS MANEBONA ALMOST half of Solomon Islands government sponsored students in the Philippines are still waiting for allowances this week, as some have already received theirs last week, it is reported. More than 300 Solomon...

It is happening at SINU, Our Telekom and …   By Alfred Sasako   THEY were once seen as “saviour” of institutions they were recruited to administer. These institutions are national icons, but none is headed by a...

BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Islands Students Association in Philippines (SISAP) request for the Ministry of Education and responsible authorities to investigate said allowance payments that they deny receiving. The Ministry of Education through the National Training...

MERHD delaying of allowance sees SIG-scholars in Philippines on the streets    BY BARNABAS MANEBONA and MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO WHAT we have feared has happened - Solomon Islands government-sponsored students in the Philippines have been kicked out...

AMA Medical students urged to seek help from their MPs   By EDDIE OSIFELO GOVERNMENT-sponsored students of AMA University who had been barred from returning to continue studies are being urged to seek help from their members...

Gov’t scholars in Philippines facing hell, education ministry ‘not aware’     BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO   SOLOMON Islands students in the Philippines are in danger of living there illegally if the Government does not do anything soon. And, permanent...

By EDDIE OSIFELO MEMBER of Parliament for Central Honiara, John Moffat Fugui urges the Minister of Education and Human Resources, John Dean Kuku to push the University of South Pacific 4th Campus in Honiara. This came...

BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI   MALAITA province continues to dominate the Solomon Islands Government scholarship scheme at around 50 percent of recipients each year, it is reported. Minister for Education John Dean Kuku voiced this during a dinner...

HELLEN Samo holds an Australian qualification from the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) in Painting and Decorating, joining the many women unveiling their potential in Solomon Islands' trades industries. Hellen, an APTC alumna from Malaita...