Editing Pitcairn Islands (section)

=== Education ===
Education is free and compulsory between the ages of five and 15.<ref name=PUCEd>{{cite web|url=https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/education.shtml|title=Education on Pitcairn Island|work=[[Pacific Union College]]|access-date=2020-01-07|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929155717/https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/education.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> Children up to the age of 12 are taught at [[Pulau School]], while children of 13 and over attend secondary school in New Zealand, or are educated via correspondence school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pitcairn.gov.pn/policies/SDP%202014-2018%20-%20Amended%2011-05-2016.pdf|page=8|title=Pitcairn Islands Strategic Development Plan 2014-2018|publisher=Government of Pitcairn Islands|access-date=21 March 2018|archive-date=13 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413112728/http://pitcairn.gov.pn/policies/SDP%202014-2018%20-%20Amended%2011-05-2016.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

The island's children have produced a book in [[Pitkern language|Pitkern]] and English called ''Mi Bas Side orn Pitcairn'' or ''My Favourite Place on Pitcairn''.

The school on Pitcairn, Pulau School, provides pre-school and primary education based on the New Zealand syllabus. The teacher is appointed by the governor from qualified applicants who are registered in New Zealand as teachers. The government officially took responsibility for education in 1958; the Seventh-day Adventist Church had done so from the 1890s until 1958. There were ten students in 1999; enrolment was previously 20 in the early 1950s, 28 in 1959, and 36 in 1962. The Pulau School has a residence for teachers built in 2004; there was a previous such facility built in 1950.<ref name=PUCEd/>