Rivière du Rempart District
Rivière du Rempart is a district of Mauritius, located in the north-east of the island. It has an area of 147.6 km2 and an estimated population of 108,005, as of 31 December 2015.
Places
The Rivière du Rempart District includes different regions; however, some regions are further divided into different suburbs.- Amaury
- Amitié-Gokhoola
- Belle Vue Maurel
- * Barlow
- Brisée-Verdière
- Cap Malheureux
- Cottage
- Espérance Trébuchet
- Goodlands
- Grand Baie
- Grand-Gaube
- Le Vale
- * Lower Vale
- * Upper Vale
- Mapou
- Panchavati
- Petit Raffray
- Piton
- Plaines des Roches
- Pointe de Lascars
- Poudre d'Or
- Poudre d'Or Hamlet
- Rivière-du-Rempart
- Roche-Terre
- Roches-Noires
- Villebague
- Forbach
Education
In a 2021 article on education reform for the newspaper Le Mauricien, educator and PTr member Mahend Gungapersad questioned why colleges in rural districts like Rivière du Rempart were not added to the government's list of 12 colleges to be converted into academies.The district is home to HEI Schools Mauritius, an HEI School for ages 1 to 6, located in Forbach, Rivière du Rempart.
List of secondary schools in Rivière du Rempart
- Northfields International High School, Mapou. Private school, part of the Inspired Education Group.
- Ramsoondur Prayag State Secondary School, Rivière du Rempart
- Simadree Virasawmy State Secondary School, Rivière du Rempart
- Universal College, Rivière du Rempart. Private school.
- Ideal College, Rivière du Rempart
- Beekrumsing Ramlallah State Secondary School, Mapou
- Piton State College, Piton, founded in 2002
- Sharma Jugdambi State Secondary School, Goodlands
- Goodlands State Secondary School, Goodlands
- Friendship College, Goodlands
- Adolphe de Plevitz State Secondary School, Grand Bay. Founded in 2003 as "The Royal College".
- MITD Centre, Piton
- MITD Centre, Goodlands
The Universal college in Rivière du Rempart is a private college founded in 1961, and as of 2015 hosted a variety of classes, from yoga and music to science and business, as well as extracurricular activities including a communal and vegetable garden, reflecting the local community's history of generational farming and tending lands. It was cited in 2018 among Mauritian private colleges with declining enrollments, specifically those where parents wanted better education for their children. As part of a ceremony for the college's 60th anniversary in 2021, then-president of Mauritius Prithvirajsing Roopun visited the establishment to praise its students as well as, with headmistress Anjanee Bolakee-Bhowon, commend the hard work of the faculty members.