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KIRIBATI EDUCATION POLICY

National Development Strategies 2000-2003

The primary national policy objective for education is to provide an education system that achieves high quality standards, broad coverage, relevant and cost-effectiveness in delivering service. The Ministry of Education Training and Technology (METT) is the lead Government agency responsible for development of the education sector.

PRIMARY EDUCATION

In Primary Education (Grades 1-6), the development focus has been mainly on upgrading teacher qualifications and capacity to teach improvements that have been made in the curriculum. The upgrading of teacher qualifications has been in the context of both curriculum based and school based education program content. Improvements have also been made infrastructure with renovation of classrooms and provision of furniture, mainly in the outer island schools.

JUNIOR EDUCATION

The Junior Secondary School (JSS) program was one of the highest priority sectoral development initiatives undertaken during the review period. The program was a key element in the overall strategy for achieving the long term sectoral goal of providing ... relevant and quality Education and Training for all I-Kiribati through primary, secondary, and tertiary education, the goal contained in METT's mission statement.

The JSS program covering Grades 7-9, started in 1988 with the objective of providing universal access to basic secondary education for all I-Kiribati. The program entails converting the upper grades (Grades 7, 8 and 9) of primary schools into Forms 1-3 and incorporating them into Junior Secondary Schools. To date 18 JSS's have been built and are now operational. Almost all outer islands (except Teraina and Tabuaeran) and South Tarawa have junior secondary schools. It is anticipated that by the year 2001 there will be a JSS in every island community in Kiribati. In relation to the theme of the 1996-1999 NDS, to share in the responsibilities of...