The text of a speech given by Ralph Regenvanu, Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, at the First National Education Conference in 2002. The talk gives details of Ralph's views on the problems with our education system and how the system should be changed. An abbreviated version of this talk was published as “Educational initiatives of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre” in Sanga, K., Niroa, J., Matai, K., Crowl, L. (eds) 2004 Re-thinking Vanuatu education together, Ministry of Education (Vanuatu) and Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific (Fiji).
Click below for updated accounts of the Cultural Centre's programs in the field of education referred to in this speech.
Strengthening indigenous knowledge and traditional resource management through schools