The Pacific Benchmarking for Education Results
(PaBER) project was introduced in 2012 to improve the quality of education and student performance across the Pacific, in particular to respond to low levels of literacy and numeracy. The PaBER project provides education ministries with systematic and reliable evidence and analysis of their own systems, benchmarked against high performing systems globally. This gives policy-makers and other stakeholders the opportunity to judge the strengths and weaknesses of current policy and systems,
assess how these may influence learning, and formulate appropriate reforms and action. The PaBER project was set up to test this approach in three pilot countries (Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands).
