Papua New Guinea Education
Training The positive economic development during the 1990s was not followed by the corresponding improvement in education and literacy. The school system has major shortcomings at all levels. Very small changes occurred between 1990 and 2005 despite extensive development assistance from Australia. This collaboration continues and the goals are highly concrete, but the improvements are still slow. The level of education in Papua New Guinea is very low in both regional and global comparisons. In 2009, 40% of the adult…