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[RasCanjero-]

Does Somaliland have a national curriculum for pre-college schools?

Anyone familiar with the qualifications available throughout elementary and highschool?

Sometimes SomaliSpot is the only place online where you can get info about our country.

 

[Anab]

Does Somaliland have a national curriculum for pre-college schools?

Anyone familiar with the qualifications available throughout elementary and highschool?

Sometimes SomaliSpot is the only place online where you can get info about our country.

I did some of my primary and majority of my secondary school education in somaliland.

Primary school is from years 1-8. Once you reach year 8, standard exams are taken before you can progress onto secondary school to show you've completed primary education (Bit like SATS in year 6 in the UK).

Secondary school is from year 9 (called Form 1) to year 12 (Form 4). You're taught English, maths, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, somali, Islamic studies and P.E.

The syllabus in this link is pretty much word for word what we were taught and is the same for all other english schools:

https://amdaahir.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/sl-syllabuses-20091.doc

In form 4, another standard exam is taken to show completion of secondary education. You can then use your form 4 certificate to apply to universities.

Some schools are in partnership with other countries and provide scholarships for you to study there after secondary education. The most common are China, Malaysia and Turkey.

However, the curriculum depends entirely on what school you go to. There are arabic schools and somali schools that exist but i know little about them. Majority of the english schools follow the above syllabus but there are schools (usually the boarding schools) like SOS in Sheikh and others who provide IGCSE education.

You can read more about the education structure here:

https://www.unicef.org/somalia/SOM_resources_somalilandeducstats2014.pdf



@Buskud Correct me if i'm wrong

 

[RasCanjero-]

I did some of my primary and majority of my secondary school education in somaliland.

Primary school is from years 1-8. Once you reach year 8, standard exams are taken before you can progress onto secondary school to show you've completed primary education (Bit like SATS in year 6 in the UK).

Secondary school is from year 9 (called Form 1) to year 12 (Form 4). You're taught English, maths, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, somali, Islamic studies and P.E.

The syllabus in this link is pretty much word for word what we were taught and is the same for all other english schools:

https://amdaahir.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/sl-syllabuses-20091.doc

In form 4, another standard exam is taken to show completion of secondary education. You can then use your form 4 certificate to apply to universities.

Some schools are in partnership with other countries and provide scholarships for you to study there after secondary education. The most common are China, Malaysia and Turkey.

However, the curriculum depends entirely on what school you go to. There are arabic schools and somali schools that exist but i know little about them. Majority of the english schools follow the above syllabus but there are schools (usually the boarding schools) like SOS in Sheikh and others who provide IGCSE education.

You can read more about the education structure here:

https://www.unicef.org/somalia/SOM_resources_somalilandeducstats2014.pdf



@Buskud Correct me if i'm wrong

Thanks for the detailed response.

Are you familiar with any of the examination boards that manage the qualifications or does the education ministry handle all that?

 

[darklight]

looks good. is the education in English?

 

[Buskud]

looks good. is the education in English?

Yep, mostly.

 

[darklight]

Yep, mostly.

but it should be in Somali. most of the people are nowhere near fluent in English. don't you agree?

 

[Buskud]

but it should be in Somali. most of the people are nowhere near fluent in English. don't you agree?

Somali is their first language, they speak and write well in Af-Soomaali, but the subjects are taught in English only when they are in the class.

 

[darklight]

Somali is their first language, they speak and write well in Af-Soomaali, but the subjects are taught in English only when they are in the class.

yes i know that but it would be much better if they had the education in af soomaali since thats what people speak you know.

 

[Buskud]

yes i know that but it would be much better if they had the education in af soomaali since thats what people speak you know.

All of the other schools education in Somaliland is 100% af-Soomaali, apart from Abaarso school and Burao Academy.

 

[Anab]

Thanks for the detailed response.

Are you familiar with any of the examination boards that manage the qualifications or does the education ministry handle all that?

No problem.

It's the examination board that handles the qualification. There's only one exam board- SLNECB (Somaliland National Examination and Certificate Board) i'm aware of. Here's there official website:

http://www.slnecb.org/Default.aspx

And this is an example of a typical form 4 exam which all students in somaliland sit:

http://www.somalischools.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sl-f4-chemistry-2009-exam-pdf.pdf

http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/74/29/59492974/documents/sl-f4-core-maths-p1-2009-pdf.pdf

Hope this helps

 

[Anab]

yes i know that but it would be much better if they had the education in af soomaali since thats what people speak you know.

Universities are in english so they have no other choice. Plus most of them can understand english to a reasonable degree, because they are taught in english since primary (unless they went to a somali/arabic school).

All of the other schools education in Somaliland is 100% af-Soomaali, apart from Abaarso school and Burao Academy.

I don't want to derail your thread but since when?

There are so many english private schools...it's only the public schools who teach in somali

 

[Buskud]

Universities are in english so they have no other choice. Plus most of them can understand english to a reasonable degree, because they are taught in english since primary (unless they went to a somali/arabic school).



I don't want to derail your thread but since when?

There are so many english private schools...

Walaal I meant before the grade 8 of course.