Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has stressed that no teacher should spend their days making long, difficult treks just to get to work.
Bainimarama highlighted this while commissioning the Tailevu North College’s new teacher's quarters which cost over half a million dollars.
He says on days with heavy rain, teachers of Tailevu North College could find themselves stranded on the wrong side of floods affecting the Nausori and Korovou highways.
Bainimarama says education is usually seen as a long-term investment; something that pays off returns a generation on from now as young people grow up and apply their knowledge throughout their careers.
He says in opening new schools, upgrading new school buildings and seeing funding go towards free education, free textbooks and subsidized transportation to school, the pay-outs on these educational investments are immediate.
Bainimarama says with the new quarters open, teachers can live in comfort and can instantly support themselves, their families and their students better than ever before.
He says things may be tough today but they are still building for our future.
