Queen Victoria School (Fiji)

Queen Victoria School
Location
Tailevu, Viti Levu, Fiji
Information
Type	Government
Motto	Floreat Viti - "Forward Fiji"
Established	1906
Campus	Country
Color(s)	Blue
Website	[1]

Queen Victoria School is a school in Fiji, established in 1906. The school was originally established in Nasinu to provide education to the sons of Fijian Chiefs. It later moved to Nanukuloa in Ra when World War II broke out, then the school was moved to Lodoni where the two Schools QVS and RKS operated side by side before eventually moving to a new site at Matavatucou, Tailevu where it currently sits and has built up a reputation as a crack boarding establishment. It then accepted students from Fijian villages based on their results in a secondary entrance examination.

The school is run as an academic college but there is an adjoining farm which provides food to the school and also serves as a training ground for students in terms of keeping in touch with reality. Students are taught practical basic skills like crop and livestock husbandry and there is alsoa small dairy unit. These sessions usually last for about three hours and normally takes place on Saturday morning. There is a farm manager and some permanent labourers who live on the compound. The school is equipped with a library, chemistry and biology laboratories and playing fields. Rugby is a popular sport at the school, ex-students have played in rugby teams both in Fiji and abroad^{[citation needed]}.

The school has a Chapel situated in a position high on a hill and overlooking the sea and surrounding hills. The services are mainly Methodist, but other denominations are catered for. There is a school choir that performs at the Sunday morning service.

Alumni

• Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, former Commander of RFMF.
• Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, former Governor-General of Fiji
• Ratu Sir George Cakobau, former Governor-General of Fiji

   Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, First Prime Minister of Fiji after independence in 1970 and also President of Fiji
   Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda (President of Fiji 2001- 2009)
   Dr Timoci Bavadra (Prime Minister of Fiji 1987 and was ousted by the Rabuka coup de tat)
   Laisenia Qarase (Prime Minister of Fiji, 2000–2006 and was ousted by Military)

• Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, former Commander, Royal Fiji Military Forces (1982–1987), diplomat, Speaker of the Fijian House of representatives (2001–2006) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007) (Current President of Fiji)

   Paul Manueli ( Former Commander Royal Fiji Military Forces)

• Sitiveni Rabuka, instigator of the Fiji coups of 1987(Former Commander of Fiji Military)(Former Prime Minister of Fiji)

Dr Jona Senilagakali, (Interim Prime Minister in 2006 Military Govt;) Filipe Bole ( Current Minnister for Education and Former Deputy Prime Minister Joketani Cokanasiga (Current Minister for Primary Industries)

• Ratu Wilisoni Malani a Fijian chief, medical doctor.
• Savenaca Siwatibau, (Former Governor Reserve Bank of Fiji) (Director of ESCAP)a Fijian academic leader and civil service administrator.

Savenaca Narube( Former Governor Reserve Bank of Fiji) Viliame Naupoto (Current Permanent Secretary for Fisheries and Forests Taito Waqa ( Current Permanent Secretary for Labour and Industrial Relations) Aisake Taito ( Current CEO Fiji National Provident Fund) Joeli Cawaki ( Current Commissioner Western)

• Alifereti Doviverata, Fiji Rugby Captain

   Naibuka Vuli , Fiji Rugby Captain
   Mosese Taga, Fiji Rugby prop
   Big Bill Cavubati, Heaviest Prop in International Rugby

• Epeli Kacimaiwai, former High Commissioner to Australia, former Permanent Secretary for Education & first Fijian Principal appointed to Queen Victoria School