The Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) in partnership with the Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP) has begun a 10 weeks Financial Inclusion National Demand-Side Survey.
The Central Bank has announced it is commencing a 10-week survey to gain a better understanding of people’s needs with regard to financial services and products.
Eight undergraduate students from Australia’s Bond University are in the country to undertake research placements in Kirakira, Makira Province. The month-long placement is funded by the Australian Government under the New Colombo Plan to increase the number of young Australian undergraduates…
The Taiwanese Embassy in Honiara has announced its 2015 scholarships open for international applications until 16 March. Called the 2015 Taiwan ICDF scholarship, it is funded by the Taiwan International Cooperation Fund.
The Australian High Commissioner Andrew Byrne congratulates 50 Solomon Islanders offered Australia Award Scholarships to study in Australia and other regional universities next year.
Solomon Islands medical students studying in Cuba have joined in to congratulate the country’s newly elected Prime Minister Manasseh Damukana Sogavare. In an email sent to SIBC News, spokesman of the students Glenrich Ouou says this news bring hope not only to them but for the nation as a whole.
A pilot study to record and document oral traditions about the nature and history of artificial islands in the Langalanga Lagoon in Malaita will begin towards the end of this month.
Care taker Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has been reassured that work towards the establishment of the new University of South Pacific, USP, Doma Campus is progressing well.
The Solomon Islands High Commission in Port Moresby denies allegations of misappropriation of funds for SIG sponsored students studying in various Papua New Guinea tertiary institutions.
Nine of Solomon Islands recently graduated doctors who studied medicine in Cuba will be arriving today. They are the second of three groups to arrive, and nine out of the 20 doctors who the Government first sent to study medicine in Cuba.
Twenty newly graduated Solomon Islands doctors from Cuba are expected to arrive in the country this week. The Ministry of Education sector’s secretary Audrey Rusa says four doctors will arrive today, nine tomorrow and seven on Wednesday.
Eleven students will receive Taiwanese scholarships from the Republic of China Taiwan Thursday this week, to undertake bachelors degree studies in Taiwan. A media advisory from the Taiwanese Embassy in Honiara says His Excellency Mr.
Two Solomon Islands women have graduated with Masters Degrees from the prestigious Australian National University, ANU. They are Caroline Laore and Annie Kwai. Ms Laore was a former Commissioner with the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
A study conducted by the National Financial Inclusion Unit of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands, CBSI, has found that Solomon Islands has a very low financial competency rate.
