[1][2] It has evolved from private mission schools to compulsory public education in the modern system.
[3] According to The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency as of 2018, 95.9% of the population age 15 and over can read and write in Seychelles were respectively literate.
The missions continued to operate the secondary schools — Seychelles College run by the Brothers of Christian Instruction and Regina Mundi Convent run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny — even after the government became responsible for education in 1944, though primary schools were established throughout the islands with mainly untrained teachers.
Since 1981 a system of free education has been in effect requiring attendance by all children in grades one to nine, beginning at age five.
[4] Private education has been an option in Seychelles since the late 1960s, however, it was only in 1994 that Seychellois students were allowed to attend non-state schools.
In 1993, responding to popular pressure, the government eliminated the requirement of NYS participation to enter the Polytechnic.
The largest number of students were in teacher training (302), business studies (255), humanities and science (226), and hotels and tourism (132).