Seventy-five-year-old Leaʻaetoa ‘Ofakihevaha Fatai received a Certificate in Early Childhood Education on Friday, making her believably the oldest graduate in Tongan USP history.
More than 100 students at the USP Tonga centre received degrees, diplomas and certificates after a morning street procession along Taufaʻāhau Rd in Tongatapu.
Fatai was a former Tongan government primary school teacher who mostly taught in Pangaimotu, Vavaʻu.
Students at USP have to study the programme full time before it could be completed within one year or in one and a half year if they studied it part time.
The event was attended by the Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific Hon. Henry Puna who’s also the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands and Tonga’s Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva.
