Several capital projects are underway at the Fiji National University aimed at improving overall student experiences and making the University more competitive in the tertiary education sector.
FNU Chancellor Iqbal Janiff says the Government has allocated a total of $6m to begin the construction of the FNU Labasa campus.
The new campus will initially cater for a larger number of students from the North and in the second phase will also provide for the accommodation needs of students.
Janiff says that the Fiji National University never had a campus in Labasa and has always operated from rented premises since the days of Fiji Institute of Technology (FIT).
The first stage will include the administration building, lecture rooms, tutorial rooms and computer laboratories.
The other support divisions will be in the second building and the third building will contain more lecture rooms for the National Training and Productivity Centre while the fourth building will be the workshop and all these should be ready by end of this year.
He says that the construction work is expected to start at the beginning of this year.
In other plans and developments, the government has allocated $3m to the Koronivia Campus for the building of a veterinary laboratories, the instructional livestock shed and to start the new veterinary hospital.
Janiff says that a new Creative Arts building at the Nasinu campus will be constructed to replace the UniStudio campus previously in Raiwai.
A gymnasium and a four story business school at the Nasinu campus is also included in their 2018 projects.
FNU is also looking at hostel expansion in Nasinu with more beds and kitchen and dining areas to better provide catering facilities to students.
