Editing Tonga (section)

=== Education ===
{{Main|Education in Tonga}}

Primary education between ages 6 and 14 is compulsory and free in state schools. Mission schools provide about 8% of the primary and 90% of the secondary level of education. State schools make up for the rest. Higher education includes teacher training, nursing, and medical training, a small private university, a woman's business college, and a number of private agricultural schools. Most levels of higher education are pursued overseas.

Tongans enjoy a relatively high level of education, with a 98.9% literacy rate,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tonga/|title=Tonga|work=The World Factbook|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=22 June 2010|archive-date=9 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109192022/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tonga|url-status=live}}</ref> and higher education up to and including medical and graduate degrees (pursued mostly overseas). They hold the body of academic knowledge created by their scholars in high esteem and the Kukū Kaunaka Collection, which comprises every doctoral and master's dissertation written by any Tongan in any country is archived by [[Seu'ula Johansson-Fua]] at the Institute for Education in Tonga.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-11-28|title=King Tupou VI commissions Kukū Kaunaka Collection|url=https://matangitonga.to/2018/11/28/king-tupou-vi-commissions-kuk-kaunaka-collection|access-date=2020-06-15|website=Matangitonga|language=en|archive-date=15 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615201127/https://matangitonga.to/2018/11/28/king-tupou-vi-commissions-kuk-kaunaka-collection|url-status=live}}</ref>