The illegal government ministers are almost without exception the most incompetent bunch that has ever held the reins in Fiji.
Even those with some education are mostly fools. Old Netani was a lecturer at the FIT so he must have some education, but there’s no sign of it anything he does or says. He’s a too! and 96 percent of the voters in theTamavua/Laucala Fijian electorate understood that when they voted for someone else in the 2006 elections.
But one man stands out – Filipe Bole. He is well educated and held senior positions won by merit before entering politics. He is not a fool, so his presence in the illegal regime means he carries more guilt than his light-weight colleagues. He should know better.
But he cannot claim that he’s trying to make a bad government better than it might otherwise be. He has chosen the most evil role of all. His contribution to this pact of evil is the destruction of the education system in Fiji.
He has systematically taken money from the education system and used it to fill the greedy pockets of the dictator and his cronies. How much and what they’ve done with it we simply don’t know because there is no accountability or transparency under this dictatorship.
Every day Bole issues another press release explaining his reforms. But what are these reforms? The Fiji Intermediate, the Fiji Eighth Year and the Fiji Junior examinations will be abolished so that the dictator can save some money to spend on other purposes.
Without these examinations, students from smali rural schools will be unabie to prove that they are as good as the Junior Secondary Schools which gave a pathway to higher education for rural Fijians who might otherwise never have the opportunity.
But don’t believe me. Believe Bole himself. In January this year he was defending the role of examinations:
“Examinations and tests are essential to education as they provide an opportunity for the teacher to assess what the students have or have not learnt.”
And there’s no doubt he had the Fiji wide external examinations in mind: “External examinations are important because they provide a measure of the extent of students’ achievement of the curriculum objectives and certification.”
With Fiji wide examinations the marks of students from the smallest, most under-resourced school in the middle of Viti Levu or from the most isolated island of Lau group can be compared with the marks of a student from the suburbs of Suva.
Examinations are a point of access for rural students in Fiji. Bole knows this but he has participated in their abolition.
Shame on him. He’s the worst and most evil of this criminal gang. At least no-school Frank has the excuse that he hasn’t a clue about what he’s doing. Filipe Bole has no excuses.
May he hang his head in eternal shame.
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