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Solomon Islands initiative - books for over 170,000 students

October 2011

Pearson Schools have established a program with the Solomon Islands Government to publish learner books and accompanying teacher guides to support the implementation of the revised syllabus for Grades 1-9.

This ground-breaking project is delivering:

• engaging and relevant textbooks for Solomon Islander students
• tailored support material for teachers
• important training and development for local teachers and writers.

Based on a truly collaborative approach to creating educational resources, Pearson is working with a group of curriculum officers, teachers and writers based at the Curriculum Development Division in Honiara that produces the manuscripts. The Pearson team in Melbourne take it from there - providing our expertise in project management, manuscript development, editorial, design, picture research, permissions and printing, as well as educational publishing in general.

The project is also designed to provide training and development for local Solomon Islanders - building skills in writing, syllabus and lesson planning and book production in general. The Pearson team have run three successful training workshops with the team in Honiara and are providing on-going guidance and support in manuscript development.

Making an immediate and long-term impact

In a country where many schools have very few or no classroom resources, the short and long-term benefits of a project such as this are immense.

The end result will ensure that approximately 36,000 secondary students and 135,000 primary students in all 707 schools in the Solomon Islands will be using textbooks in their classrooms that have been written and designed specifically for them.