The Northern Marianas College is in talks with the Public School System to submit a joint proposal to host the 2016 Pacific Circle Conference, according to college president Dr. Sharon Hart in her report to the Board of Regents last week.<\/p>\n
Next year\u2019s 2015 conference is being held in Fiji at the University of South Pacific, according to PCC\u2019s website. PCC describes themselves as \u201can initiative in international co-operation between educational research and development institutions\u201d in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
Its members come from all over the Pacific and to Asia. They focus on working together to producing curriculum materials, as well as honing in on issues of policy development and educational research, according to PCC.<\/p>\n
The yearly conference is where joint projects are discussed and reported upon and a range of papers and symposia are presented, according to their website. PCC was established in 1977.<\/p>\n
\u201cPSS and we have been talking about submitting\u2014before the end of the year\u2014a joint proposal to host the 2016 Pacific Circle Conference,\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n
She added that the conference is focused around K-12 grades, as well as higher education. It has never been held in Micronesia, according to her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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