Second Roundtable community consultation at Saweni today

The University of Fiji’s second roundtable community consultation on higher education takes place at Saweni Campus today.

The participants will be connected by Zoom, with the topic of the consultation being on “Education for Economic Growth: Remodelling Fiji’s National Development Plan post-COVID-19”.

Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Shaista Shameem said in the first roundtable consultation, participants recommended that there should be a revision of Fiji’s National Development Plan and Education Plans post COVID-19, which was why the university is holding second consultation.

On the scheduled agenda:

■ The Dean of the Umanand Prasad School of Medicine & Health Sciences Professor Fred Merchant will give an update on COVID-19.

■ Development Economist Sunil Kumar will talk on the ‘National Development Plan (five years and 20 years): Transforming Fiji’

■ The Dean of the JDP School of Law and Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Shameem will discuss education.

■ There will be a presentation of Roundtable Deliberations to the Plenary.

■ Open forum and resolutions on ‘Remodeling Fiji’s National Development Plan: the Education Mandate post-COVID-19’.

Professor Shameem said the university was very conscious of the need for its community to express itself on issues of national importance in education in the current climate where COVID-19 had taken over the world.

Photo: Nicolette Chambers From left: Bau Central College principal Susana Mataitoga, Dean of Umanand Prasad School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Fiji Professor Fred Merchant and Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fiji and Dean of the Law School Professor Shaista Shameem and Fiji Sun Managing Editor Digital and Readership Development Rosi Doviverata during the first roundtable community consultation which took place at the University of Fiji Saweni Campus in Lautoka on January 15, 2021.