Secretariat of the Pacific Board for Educational Assessment

The Secretariat of the Pacific Board for Educational Assessment (SPBEA) assists certain countries in the Pacific in their quality assurance of schools.

SPBEA is an intergovernmental, regional organisation set up in 1980 to assist the region and member countries to develop assessment procedures towards national / or regional certificates.

The Board administers two regional senior secondary school qualifications, the Pacific Senior Secondary Certificate (PSSC) and the South Pacific Form Seven Certificate (SPFSC), beginning in 1989 and 2004 respectively. These two qualifications replaced New Zealand-based qualifications.

A list of involved schools is available at http://www.spbea.org.fj/Schools/School-Updates.aspx.

The SPBEA's main office is in SUVA, Fiji.

Its web site is http://www.spbea.org.fj

SPBEA has a membership of nine countries (Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Solomons, Vanuatu), plus Australia and New Zealand who are the main donors.

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