King George V School (Gilbert and Ellice Islands)

King George V School (KGV) was a government high school for boys in the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati), within the British colony Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Throughout its history it was in multiple locations in South Tarawa and Abemama. It served as a boarding school,[1] and trained people to be government workers and teachers.[2]

John Garrett, author of Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II, wrote that many of its alumni "shaped a nucleus which assisted" the independence of what became Kiribati.[2]

  1. ^ Talu, Alaima. "Towards Quality in Education" (Chapter 21, in Part IV: Social Issues). In: Van Trease, Howard (editor). Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati. University of Canterbury MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and University of the South Pacific Institute of Pacific Studies, 1993. ISBN 095833000X, 9780958330008. p. 242
  2. ^ a b Garrett, John. Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II. University of the South Pacific Institute of Pacific Studies (in association with the World Council of Churches), 1997. p. 11. ISBN 9820201217, 9789820201217.