One of Fiji's teachers training institutions says the interim government's removal of nearly 1,000 teachers from schools around the country is affecting both graduates and student teachers.
The regime implemented the policy at the end of April, forcing public servants to retire at 55 instead of 60 in an effort to reduce the numbers of civil servants by ten percent.
The Deputy Principal of the teachers training institution Fulton College, Losena Oli, says some of the graduates who had been teaching as volunteers at local mission schools have been recruited by the Government.
"The Mission should seriously look into this because right now in Fiji with the devaluation and all that, life is not easy. And they should be paid accordingly rather than giving them just a sort of allowance and all that. It's a good amount of money they get off in the government schools."
Losena Oli says she hopes the mission schools will begin paying staff in order to make up for the shortfall in teachers.
