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VANUATU CHEVENING SCHOLARSFor the academic year 1999/2000 the ni-Vanuatu who visited the UK were :
Email: joe_jesse@hotmail.com Contact address in Vanuatu: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Tel: 22309
On return to Vanuatu, George took up a post with the VASTEP Project -- VASTEP - 'Vanuatu Australian Secondary Teacher Education Programme' was a collaborative Program funded and run by Australia at the Vanuatu Teachers College (VTC) in Port Vila. The project aimed at teaching counterpart Ni-Vanuatu lecturers to train secondary school teachers while following a Diploma in Education Course. The program was for three years (2000-2002)and was managed by an Australian University. Essentially, it took promising teachers from high schools and puts them through a two year process of qualifying them to become teachers of teachers. This qualification process involves part-time study towards a masters degree from an Australian university, and includes a year or so on attachment working with an expatriate lecturer at the VTC. In 2003 George took up a post with ASPBAE (Asia South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, a Pacific regional organisation with headquarters in Mumbai, India. In his new capacity, George worked with VRDTCA (Vanuatu Rural development and Training Centres Association) an umbrella organisation for RTCs and schools in rural areas that provides, or arranges the provision of, support and training for teachers. In addition to his vocational work, George is currently (2007) the President of the Port Vila Football League and Treasurer of the Vanuatu Foootball Federation. Depite these heavy commitments, George maintains regular links with BFOV and frequently represents our interests in Vanuatu. Address: Vanuatu Teachers College, Port Vila, Vanuatu Email : kgbiapson@hotmail.com Tel: TBA
Email : lentarivonda@hotmail.com Telephone: 00 678 26748 (Home) 00 678 22512 (Work)
Department of Public Health
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Jesse
Dick Joe (Paama Island) graduated from the University of the South
Pacific with a BA (+GCED) degree in Education and Public Administration and,
later, from the University of Malta, with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Educational
Planning and Management. Prior to his arrival in the UK he was employed in
the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in Port Vila. Jesse was engaged on post-graduate studies at the University of London. On
return to Vanuatu he resumed his job as Director of the Policy and Planning
Service in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
George Iapson [Tanna] graduated from the James Cook
University of North Queensland with a degree in Education. Prior to his arrival in the UK was
teaching at the Aore Academy and Matevulu College. During his Chevening
Year in the UK George was engaged on post-graduate studies at the
Oxford Brookes University in Oxford. One area of study was the teaching of French as a
foreign language in English medium schools. 
Len Tarivonda [Ambae} After spending two years at
Atlantic College in Wales, where he obtained the International Baccalaureate,
Len graduated from
the University of London in 1993 with a degree in medicine. Prior to his arrival in the UK
he was employed at the Port Vila Central Hospital. While in the UK as a
Chevening Scholar during the year 1999/2000, Len was engaged on post-graduate studies ( MA in Public Health) at the
University of Leeds. After leaving the UK on 16th September, 2000, he
returned to Vanuatu to take up a new post with the
Department of Public Health in Port
Vila.