Solomon Islands - Education

About 60% of the adult population is estimated to be literate. Education is not compulsory, and many schools charge fees. In 1976, the government began substantial aid to primary as well as secondary schools. Christian missions (mainly Anglican), supported by government grants, continue to provide some primary schooling. In 1994 there were 60,493 students and 2,514 teachers at the primary school level. Student-to-teacher ratio stood at 24 to 1. Secondary schools (general) had 7,811 pupils and approximately 400 teachers in 1994. Higher education is provided by the Solomon Islands Teachers College (Honiara), the Honiara Technical Institute, and the University of the South Pacific Solomon Islands Center, also in Honiara.

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Silas Sitai

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There is now a new education polciy that is being introduced by the recent government led by Dr. Dereck Sikua. Thgis is known as basic education where student start from Kindergarten, primary and secondary at grade 9, (form 3) It is also fee free where students or parents will not pay any school fee as used to be the practice in the past. Access become increased for parents in the rural areas where financing of the education of their children used to be quite difficult. I hope Solomon Islands will improve in addressing providing education for all by 2015 as member of the UN MDG 2015.

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Claire Eadie

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I am currently awaiting NZ Police deployment to the Solomon Islands for 6 months. I spent some years as a Special Needs Teacher in NZ primary schools. I would like to become involved in aiding the education programme while I am based in Honiara. Can you give me some information regarding local primary schools and the level of resourcing. I would like to start making enquiries in NZ for interest in sponsors.

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Claire Eadie

Isaac Seko

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There have been alot of improvements in the education sector for a couple of years now in Solomon Islands. This had been consistently under-reported. One major problem only is in terms of resources to be used in both primary and secondary strands. Should there be more emphasis and resources are spend here, the level of education will surely improve considerably. Also to add on to the likely reason why some children might miss school is the geography of Solomon Islands. This only adds to other socio-economic factors that might hinder the development of this sector also. But all in all, big achievements have been done so far as we continue to provide basic education to our people.

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