The Director of the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education says the government needs to create more places at secondary school to allow students to move through higher-level education.
He says there is increasing demand for places, with around 90 percent of primary school year six students qualifying for high school this year.
Gabriel Taloikwai has congratulated the government on achieving its long-held ambition to substantially increase the numbers of secondary places for graduating primary school students.
"It has encouraged the communities and the education authorities to build more secondary Form One places out in the provinces, everywhere so that the rate of transfers from primary to secondary be increased. And this is the first time they have achieved it."
But Gabriel Taloikwai says this is just a start and the government must make more places available in forms four and five.
