King George V and Elaine Bernacchi School (KGV/EBS) is a government senior high school of

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, located in Bikenibeu,

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. it has almost 600 students. In 1993 it had a competitive admissions process as there was not enough space for every high school student in Kiribati; the remainder had to enroll in Christian high schools.Talu, Alaima. "Towards Quality in Education" (Chapter 21, in Part IV: Social Issues). In: Van Trease, Howard (editor). ''Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati''.

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MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and

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/ref> Since then the Kiribati government had established two additional government high schools. The school is next to the

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head office.

History

It was formed by the 1965 merger of two schools: King George V School, a boys' secondary school that was founded in 1922 in

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and later moved to

Abemama Abemama (Apamama) is an atoll, one of the Gilberts group in Kiribati, and is located southeast of Tarawa and just north of the Equator. Abemama has an area of and a population of 3,299 . The islets surround a deep lagoon. The eastern part of ...

,Talu, Alaima. "Towards Quality in Education" (Chapter 21, in Part IV: Social Issues). In: Van Trease, Howard (editor). ''Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati''.

MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and

, 1993. , 9780958330008. p
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/ref> and then Bikenibeu in 1953, and the Elaine Bernacchi School, a girls' secondary school founded in 1959 in Bikenibeu. From 1953 until 1975 students from the Ellice Islands could sit the selection tests for admission to the King George V School and the Elaine Bernacchi Secondary School. In 1974, the Ellice Islanders voted for separate British dependency status as

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, which ended the

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colony. The following year the Tuvaluan students were transferred to

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. Previously teachers at KGV/EBS did curriculum development for all government schools in Kiribati, but in 1988 they began asking for compensation for their curriculum development. The Curriculum Development and Resources Centre (CDRC), formed in 1992, eventually assumed responsibility for that task.Tenero, Teweiariki.
STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMISING THE INPUT OF TEACHERS TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN KIRIBATI
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References

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