Samoa Education has undergone plethora of changes in the early days of 1990 and it has significantly improved throughout the years in terms of curriculum, syllabus and also in the recruitment of the teaching professionals. Initially the
Samoa Education System was not so strong but presently the adult literacy rate is over 97% and all this is achieved by the constant struggle in enhancing the quality education by the Ministry of Education, Samoa.
Education of Samoa can be categorized in two sections and they are namely schools in Samoa and the universities and colleges in Samoa.
The formal education is imparted by the Department of Education and they have well structured syllabus and follows a common examinations. The faculties of the government school in Samoa holds Samoan teachers' certificates and it is mandatory for teaching. The village schools gives four year of primary schooling whereas the district schools train the intelligent pupils and provides them education to the upper level. The
Education in Samoa aims to follows a bilingual educational system with English as their second language.
The
Samoa education survey in recent times showed that approximately 97% of the children attended the primary school whereas 68% of the eligible candidate attended the secondary school. The primary level ratio of pupil- teacher was found to be 24 to 1.The secondary schools are maintained by the government and English is the instruction language of these schools.
Robert Louis Stevenson School is a primary and secondary school in Apia and it is run privately whereas the University of the South Pacific is a public university and has branches all over the nation.
It can be said that the
Samoa education is basically up to dated and it abides by the stringent rules for educating the masses.
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