Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises and Communications, Honourable Manoa Seru Kamikamica (sitting on stage with garland), alongside the Fiji National University Chancellor and Chair of Council, Mr Semesa Karavaki, FNU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, FNU Council members, FNU academics and industry leaders at the 2025 FNU Conference on Resetting TVET & Higher Education.

The Fiji National University has successfully completed its 2025 Fiji National University Conference on Resetting TVET & Higher Education.

The theme of the two days conference is ‘Transforming Skills, Shaping Futures: The New Era for FNU’.

FNU educators and industry experts convened at Nadi’s Sofitel Fiji Resort and Spa.

Chief Guest and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises and Communications, Honourable Manoa Seru Kamikamica highlighted in his keynote address yesterday that the theme of the conference underscored a profound and urgent call to action for Fiji.

“The theme of this conference, ‘Transforming Skills, Shaping Futures: The New Era for FNU’ is critical to Fiji’s development trajectory. As a small island developing state, our challenges are unique, but so are our opportunities,” said Honourable Kamikamica.

“By resetting our Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Higher Education (HE) sectors, we are equipping our people not just to survive, but to thrive in this rapidly evolving world. Education is the great equaliser, the key to unlocking individual potential and national prosperity.”

FNU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Unaisi Nabobo-Baba while delivering the welcome address said as the national university, FNU understood that its responsibility was profound.

“We believe at FNU, our people will be better off increasingly if we increasingly commit together, with our partners and collaborating to achieve outcomes for our people, and work alongside each other. In some ways we are doing that already.” said Professor Nabobo-Baba.

“We will build our capacities of research, we will understand the motive of Government, and we will reset to suit and have appropriately deliver to all our peoples.”

Delegates at the 2025 FNU Conference on Resetting TVET & Higher Education.

She added the conference came out of the refurbished refreshed Strategic Plan where FNU’s Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching, Professor Jimaima Lako is heading the reviewing of all FNU’s curriculum (2024 – 2026).

“Fiji is a leader in the Pacific. In doing that, through the University of the South Pacific, the University of Fiji and the Fiji National University jointly, and all other universities in the Pacific, we are called to reset and rebuild as is our purpose here today,” she added.

The second and final day of the 2025 FNU Conference on Resetting TVET & Higher Education concluded on Friday.