Free education for PNG children: Somare

Papua New Guinea children will get free schooling after policy is put in place next year, Prime Minister Michael Somare says:

Cabinet had decided to cover schooling costs from grade one to grade eight, Somare told AAP on Thursday in Wabag, the capital of Enga Province in PNG's highlands region. "We have decided we should get the policy in place by the beginning of 2010," he said. "We want education from grade one up to grade eight, (where) parents will not meet the cost."