Education in Papua New Guinea

Population: 5 million people

Literacy Rate: ? %

GNP: USD ? per capita

Human Development Index: 0.?

Education in Papua New Guinea is managed through nineteen provinces and two district organisational units.

In the 1980s, up to year 12 (matriculation) there were:

* 2600 community schools - grades 1 to 6
* 120 provincial high schools - grades 7 to 10
* 4 national high schools - the only institutions offering full-time grades 11 and 12
* the College of Distance Education - grades 7 to 10
* the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (matriculation studies)
* limited private education provision - pre-school to grade 12.

See the List of schools in Papua New Guinea for a partial listing of preschools, primary schools, secondary schools, vocational education and university bodies´ both public and private in Papua New Guinea.