![]() PNG EDUCATION secretary Dr Uke Kombra is confident that the country can reach the literacy rate target of 70 per cent by 2027 “if everyone works together to roll out literacy programmes in the country”. “We have the national literacy awareness secretariat that partners with NGOs, churches and other government institutions to roll out adult literacy programmes,” he said. He was responding to a report in The National yesterday that the country’s literacy rate was the “lowest” among the Pacific island countries. Papua New Guinea is sitting on 63.4 per cent while Vanuatu is on 89.1 per cent, Kiribati on 93 per cent, New Caledonia on 97.8 per cent, Fiji on 99.1 per cent, Samoa on 99.1 per cent and Tonga on 99.4 per cent.
Dr Kombra said he was confident that PNG could reach the 70 per cent literacy rate by 2027, “and can (even) reach 100 per cent if everyone works together to achieve the goal”. “Parents must send their children to school and adults who do not know how to read and write must take part in informal literacy programmes being rolled out nationwide,” he said. “If we start sending children to school now, we will not face the problem of illiteracy in the future. “With these two programmes, we are making progress but not at the expected level we require,” he added. The Education Department has two plans to address the issue:
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