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Issue 06, June 16 2023

Honiara Vet Clinic Tafadzwa Machiridza

As we all know, the Honiara Vet Clinic has recently reopened (our fury babies finally have a doctor too!) Our generous Tenaru house team organised a series of fundraising activities to assist in the rebuilding process and purchase of equipment for the clinic. From the 23rd to the 27th of May, Tenaru held a bake sale; organised a primary assembly where the students created their own promotional songs, delivered speeches about the importance of animals in their life, shared personal anecdotes about pets and performed a skit Doctor Joyce also attended this assembly to share information about her daily work and insights on animal care. They also hosted a movie night for the whole school.

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See you again soon!

It has been a long and event-filled term, and we are all, I’m sure, ready for a nice break., including us here at The Drum. Not to worry though, we will be back to giving you all interesting news and information on all sorts of wacky topics next term. It has been a great privilege serving you this term and we can’t wait to see you next term! Have a nice holiday!

The clinic is run by Dr. Joyce. She was very outdoorsy and grew up with a passion for science Her father, who was the first local veterinarian, inspired her to pursue this career too Aware of the difficulty of acceptance into vet school, not only due to the high competition and limited vet schools abroad, but also as a young female growing up in a third world country with limited opportunities, she did not let that stop her. In high school she began by choosing the relevant subjects, as well as getting work experience

Doctor Joyce was fortunate enough to get accepted into James Cook University in 2018 and began her Veterinary Science studies, which is a 5-year full time course According to her, it was quite daunting, at first, to choose this career path and she encountered numerous challenges along the way, but nevertheless completed her studies earlier this year, returning home to re-establish her late father’s veterinary clinic, which is the only one in the country

“It’s quite rewarding to provide animal health care to both companion and production animals which have significant value to people in various ways”, she says Doctor Joyce hopes to see young people choose this career to boost animal health in the South Pacific. We all would also love to thank Doctor Joyce for continuing her late father’s necessary work here in Honiara; anyone who has an animal best friend will understand how much Doctor Joyce is appreciated. Thank you!

TVET Abigail Chang

Can you imagine a world without chairs, tables, buildings, restaurants, cars, farms, roads, bridges and plumbing?

Whilst formal education is often viewed as primary, secondary school and university, there is also an education option after secondary school, known as TVET. TVET stands for ‘Technical Vocational Education and Training.’ TVET institutions or providers aim to create or build skills and not just build knowledge. The creation of skills is built on a foundation of ‘learning by doing and learning whilst doing,’ which is hands-on practical learning and assessments, together with theoretical learning

In TVET, there are no marks such as 81/100 or 93/100 when a student is undertaking training. A student can only be either, competent or not competent. If a student is competent, they are able to consistently demonstrate the required skill. If they have not sufficiently mastered a skill, then they are considered not competent. Competency is very important in TVET, because it is the difference between having and not having the required skills

In our world, there is a place for economists, lawyers, bankers and accountants, but there is also an important place for jobs that are linked to TVET such as mechanics, carpenters, electricians, chefs, bakers, engineers, photographers, fashion designers, painters, artists, lab technicians, sound engineers, agriculturalists, nurses and plumbers Just as we need university graduates, every country also needs TVET graduates with strong skills to drive our economy.

TVET has a wide range of skills training opportunities. If you have not heard of TVET before, do find out about fiver jobs not mentioned here, that would require someone to have undertaken Technical Vocational Education Training

You might be quite surprised to learn just how important TVET-linked jobs are for the world in which we live

Victory for Uruguay

At the conclusion of the FIFA U20 World Cup 2023, Uruguay was named the victor after scoring 1 against Italy. The FIFA World Youth Championship, as it was previously named, began back in 1977. This contest is held once every two years. Argentina holds the record for the most FIFA U20 World Cup titles ever won.