The call by the Catholic Church needs to be heard because there are others making the same call, including TISI Sangam Fiji.

The statement has come from the TISI Sangam Fiji, which says that as a multi-faith based and socio-educational, cultural and religious organisation it fully supports the Catholic Church in its call for Catholics to be appointed as the heads of their schools.

TISI Sangam has operated as a socio-educational, cultural and religious organisation since 1926.

Today, the provision of education remains its core occupation and it owns and manages numerous pre school centres, 21 primary, five high schools and a tertiary institution the Sangam College for Nursing.

While TISI Sangam schools are open to students of all religious faiths and backgrounds, maintaining the identity and ethos of the visions of Sadhu Kuppuswamy and Sangam is a defining feature of its schools.

Since the establishment of its first school, it has always embraced diversity and open to all who seek the values of attending a Sangam school.

TISI Sangam has always maintained that consultation by the Ministry of Education with school managements on heads of schools appointments is important to promote the educational vision for Fiji.

Heads of schools appointed to community operated schools need to be familiar or well versed with the foundation values and vision of the schools.

TISI Sangam therefore joins all the stakeholders who manage the schools in Fiji and calls on the Ministry of Education to consult the controlling authorities of the schools before appointing and finalising the position of school heads.