Physical Education(PE) is one of the core requirement for qualification used in the approval of high schools to be allowed for external examinations. Fiji Secondary schools need to meet a set of criteria determined by the Ministry of Education to qualify for external examinations. This is the only known purpose of PE in secondary schools and the only formal role it played in Fiji's secondary education. This role has marginalized the development of PE thus relegating its standard just to be a qualifying criterion for external examination, stripping its status and value as an independent lesson of its own. Sports within the high school curriculum are often a centre of controversy, in particular the argument between the parameters of PE and Sports, and the overemphasis of competitive sports in the school program. Raising the standard of PE and sports require a concerted effort from all the education stakeholders, with the PE Teacher Education (PETE) institutions leading this development.
