Libraries National Archives in Suva contain the Sir Alport Barker Memorial Library, an extensive Pacific collection. The reading room is open to the public. This and the library at the University of the South Pacific are the official depositories of all Fijian literature. The Western Regional Library in Lautoka also stocks rare books on the Pacific, bound volumes of the Pacific Islands Monthly, the Fiji Royal Gazette and reports of the Bureau of Statistics. Education Fiji is the center of learning for South Pacific nations.
Education is free and universal through eighth grade.
Initially bi-lingual, Fijian or Hindi and English, the four upper classes are conducted in English. There are approximately 675 primary schools and 150 secondary schools staffed primarily by graduates of Fiji's four teacher-training colleges. Crowning its system is the University of the South Pacific, established in 1968 in Suva, with its four schools of Agriculture, Education, Natural Resources and Social and Economic Development. Fiji Institute of Technology covers Engineering, Business Administration and Hotel and Catering service. Pacific Theological College is an advanced learning center under the auspices of Fiji's Protestant Churches.