Students under the Erasmus+ program are competitive and can survive competition and differentiate Fijian products from the competitive market.
Minister for Education, Dr Mahendra Reddy highlighted this while speaking at the celebrations of the EU-ACP Relations and Intercultural Dialogue through Student Mobility and Academic Cooperation yesterday.
Erasmus+ program is an exchange student and staff program whereby Fijians travel to the EU for studies and vise-versa.
Reddy says that Fiji cannot grow and compete in a competitive world by having a workforce with just undergraduate degrees as they are not critical thinkers and are not trained to question the existing body of knowledge and its relevance.
Meanwhile Head of Delegation of the European Union for the Pacific, Andrew Jacobs says that around 1.7 billion Euros is dedicated to scholarships to benefit non EU countries.
Jacobs says that the main aim for the Erasmus program is to enable students to study in the European Union.
Jacobs says that although the numbers of participants look modest, it is still a good start and they are looking forward to the number increasing in the coming years as there is a lot of potential to increase pacific participation in the program.
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