FIVE teachers are living in the principal’s quarters in Serua because of housing shortage.
The issue was highlighted during the Serua Provincial Council meeting in Navua last week.
Nuku district representative Simione Vua said they had waited for six years but to no avail.
He claimed in 2014, a senior government official from the Prime Minister’s Office had visited the school.
The faculty had highlighted the teachers’ housing issue and they were promised that teachers would receive new quarters.
“Na vei bose sa oti, na leqa qo au dau kauta cake mai, me baleta ga nodra i tikotiko na qasenivuli e Nuku Secondary School, me vakamuri ga ka e tukuni vei keimami ena 2014 mai na PM’s Office baleta kena tara na vale ni qasenivuli. (This is the same issue I’ve been highlighting in previous provincial council meetings, the construction of new quarters for teachers at Nuku Secondary School, I am here to follow up on what we discussed with officials from the PM’s Office in 2014).
Mr Vua said nine quarters were accommodating 20 teachers. He claimed married teachers were unable to bring their families because of the housing issue.
Mr Vua said five married teachers were living with the school principal in his quarters in very cramped conditions.
In response, Divisional Education Officer Pravin Nath called on the people of Nuku district to assist in the construction of new quarters.
He said Government had invested in classrooms and other buildings in the school.
“We are moving away to develop some other schools in other provinces, they are requesting if the vanua and tikina to at least do some quarters for the school,” he said.
“If they can take over so that other schools can be assisted.”
District representative for Serua Western Division Esika Qorovarua said over the past two years the academic performance at Nuku Secondary School was below average and there was a need for the province to step in.
The rural school accommodates 100 students from the six villages in the district — Waibogi, Wainadiro, Nuku, Masi, Naimasimasi and Sabata.
