Vanuatu

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Vanuatu in a nutshell

Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu (French: République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some 1,750 kilometres (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 500 kilometres (310 mi) northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.

Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. Europeans began to settle in the area in the late 18th century. In the 1880s France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the country, and in 1906 they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through a British-French Condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was created in 1980.

The population is 240,000.

The capital (and largest city) is Port Vila.

For more details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu

Education in Vanuatu

Schools in Vanuatu

Schooling is very different in Vanuatu to what kids experience in New Zealand and Australia. Schools in Venuatu usually have their own fruit gardens, vegetable gardings from which they grow vegetables, sweet corn, manioc, sweet potatoes, igname and taro and at least twice a week, students work in the gardens. In this way, boarding schools are able to save money by growing, cooking and eating food from their own gardens. It is also good because the students learn more than just academic subjects, they learn life skills as well, and not just how to grow plants, but every Saturday and Sunday they have to cook their own food as well because there is no cook on the weekends.

Compared to New Australian and New Zealand schools they only have a limited amount of sporting equipment, a soccer field, 4 volley ball courts, a basketball court, and a Pétanque (French bowls)field. School fees are the same for Private and Public Secondary schools at 27,000 Vatus, the local currency (which is around $AUD330 or $NZ360) for a year. That might not sound much, but the normal monthly income for a Ni Vanuatu is 20,000VT ($AUD250 or $NZ270) and most Vanuatu families have at least three children so it means they could pay 4 months salary just for school fees.

Primary

• British Primary School Port Vila
• British Primary School Port Vila
• Port Vila International School
• Sarakata Primary School

Secondary

• Correspondence School Port Vila
• Malapoa College
• Matevulu College
• Montmartre College
  • Montmartre College was the first French school in Vanuatu, and it still is the best. It is a Catholic boarding school with 350 boys and girls from Year 7 to 10, another 150 boys and girls Year 11 and to 13, and they only get to go back to town once a month. The students and most of the teachers are Ni Vanuatu (this is what the indigenous people are called) except they do have help from around the world. There are three Brothers "Frére du Sacré Coeur" from Canada, an old priest from France and they have Sisters to help as well, one from France, one from Wallis Islands, and another from Madagascar. Everybody lives on site; there is a private house for the teachers and a large dormitory for the students.
• Onesua College
• Aore Adventist High School
• Lycee Louis Antoine de Bougainville

References

http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/library/Internet_School.htm http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/education/schoolexp/global/vanuatu.php

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