Editing Papua New Guinea (section)

=== Education ===
{{Main|Education in Papua New Guinea}}

A large proportion of the population is [[Literacy|illiterate]], with women predominating in this area.<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org">{{cite web|url=http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_PNG.html|title=Papua New Guinea HDI Rank – 145|work=2007/2008 Human Development Report, Hdrstats.undp.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429193232/http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_PNG.html|archive-date=29 April 2009|access-date=27 June 2010}}</ref> Much of the education in PNG is provided by church institutions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirche-in-not.de/aktuelle-meldungen/2009/03-06-papua-neuguinea-weltgebetstag-frauen-2009 |title=Kichte-in-not.de |publisher=Kirche-in-not.de |date=6 March 2009 |access-date=27 June 2010 |archive-date=20 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120102657/http://www.kirche-in-not.de/aktuelle-meldungen/2009/03-06-papua-neuguinea-weltgebetstag-frauen-2009 |url-status=live |language=de}}</ref> This includes 500 schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nmz-mission.de/de.partner/de.papua-neuguinea/de.papua-neuguinea.2/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231014835/http://www.nmz-mission.de/de.partner/de.papua-neuguinea/de.papua-neuguinea.2/index.html |archive-date=31 December 2010 |title=Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Papua-Neuguinea |publisher=NMZ-mission.de |access-date=27 June 2010 |url-status=dead |language=de}}</ref> Papua New Guinea has six universities as well as other tertiary institutions. The two founding universities are the{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}} [[University of Papua New Guinea]], based in the [[National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)|National Capital District]],<ref>{{cite web |author=Vahau, Alfred |url=http://www.upng.ac.pg/index.html |title=University of Papua New Guinea |publisher=Upng.ac.pg |date=5 January 2007 |access-date=27 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105194656/http://www.upng.ac.pg/index.html |archive-date=5 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Papua New Guinea University of Technology]], based outside of [[Lae]], in [[Morobe Province]].

The four other universities were once colleges but have since been recognised by the government. These are the [[University of Goroka]] in the Eastern Highlands province, [[Divine Word University]] (run by the [[Catholic Church]]'s [[Society of the Divine Word|Divine Word Missionaries]]) in [[Madang Province]], [[Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment|Vudal University]] in [[East New Britain Province]], and [[Pacific Adventist University]] (run by the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]]) in the National Capital District.

The [[Human Rights Measurement Initiative]] reports that Papua New Guinea is achieving 68.5% of what should be possible for the right to education, based on their level of income.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Papua New Guinea |url=https://www.rightstracker.org/country/PNG |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=HRMI Rights Tracker |language=en |archive-date=13 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513211655/https://www.rightstracker.org/country/PNG |url-status=live }}</ref>