Feature Articles from the Australian High Commission Suva - Fiji.
1. National trainers make history and contribute to up-skilling the Pacific workforce: Two Fijian trainers have achieved accreditation to teach internationally recognised courses at the Australia–Pacific Technical College (APTC), which is funded by the Australian Government. Josaia Macanavere and Sanjendra Bali are the first at the college to qualify as National Trainers, accredited to teach courses in Automotive Mechanical Technology and Carpentry. (Click here to read more)
2. Sisi’s disability no barrier to Australia Award: For Sofaia ‘Sisi’ Coalala visual impairment has never been a limitation. She is the recipient of a prestigious Australia Awards Scholarship, selected for the Australia Awards Leadership Program as one of the best and brightest applicants from Fiji. (Click here to read more)
3. Rallying together to prepare for Fiji’s cyclone season: A disaster risk management workshop in Suva in mid-November has produced a framework for collaboration to counter the likelihood, reality or consequences of disaster during Fiji’s coming six-month cyclone season. (Click here to read more)
4. Fiji classrooms welcome students with disabilities: It takes Waisea, 16, ninety minutes to get to school by boat and road from his home on Fiji’s Serua Island. But he loves it when he gets there, even though his intellectual disability makes it hard for him to understand complex information. (Click here to read more)