Despite its remote location, Fiji has always tried to keep abreast with the latest international advancements in technology.
An article in The Fiji Times on December 1, 1983, highlighted then Education and Youth Minister Dr Ahmed Ali saying the Lautoka Teachers College would get eight computers.
He said this while speaking at the Lautoka-based college’s graduation ceremony which saw the first group of 58 teachers receive their certificates.
Dr Ali said a network of eight computers would enable every trainee teacher who passed through the institution to be better acquainted with them.
The minister said once the computers were established, the principal of the college would then organise courses.
The principal would also be able to have staff and their children and wives learn how to use the state-of-the-art machines.
Dr Ali said trainees should be given the best and latest of what was available in technology and teaching aids to better prepare their students.
