Future of examination in doubt for Islanders
PA Wellington The future of New Zealand’s School Certificate examination for about 10,000 South Pacific Island pupils is in doubt, a Wellington, newspaper disclosed yesterday. ■
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has paid for the South Pacific option since 1975 but will end such funding in 1987. Countries affected are Western Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, the Cook Islands, Kiri-
bati, and Tuvalu. “Foreign Affairs has indicated it will stop providing the money,” the director of international education with the Department of Education, Mr Peter Beveridge, said in an interview yesterday.
He said that alternative funding would have to be found to pay for setting, marking, administering the papers and paying for personnel to travel to the islands. The South Pacific countries could pay for the service themselves or the South Pacific Board for Educational Assessment in Fiji could write its own papers. Mr Beveridge said that he did not rule out the islands losing School Certificate
The Government vote for School Certificate administration to the external aid division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was $16,000 for the 1983-84 financial year.
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