Somaliland leading the way in education

[SirLancelLord]

Did you know that in Somaliland for the year 2014/2015 the number of schools were:

Primary schools: 1083
Secondary schools: 146
Vocational: 70
Universities: 19

Source: Somaliand Central Statistics Department (2015)

But well done to Somalia's states for tryna catch up

 

[Yonis]

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/...del-for-other-regions-world-bank-group.44387/

 

[Crow]

Trying to catch up kulaha.

Forget Puntland, even Hutus can read better.

With Mogadishu's low enrollment rate in elementary school, this is unexpected. It suggests that enrolling in a Somaliland "school" isn't much different than not going at all.

 

[Abdalla]

What a liar

Puntland Makes Strides in Expanding School Access
Doreen Ajiambo / 05 Mar 2018

School children in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia that has been able to transform its education system despite memories of civil war.

GAROWE, Somalia—As dawn breaks in this city, the capital of the Puntland region of Somalia, hundreds of schoolchildren fill the roads, carrying bags and books as they head to classes to receive education that many of their parents missed during decades of civil war.

“I’m rushing to school right now. I need to be there by 7 a.m.,” said 16-year-old Hassan Ali, who attends Darwish Primary School here. “I want to study hard and excel in life like other people because I know education is the key to success.”

The situation in Puntland, a largely autonomous region that maintains its own government, is different from conditions in southern and central Somalia, including Mogadishu, where children sometimes are afraid to go school due to frequent attacks by Al-Shabaab, an extremist group linked to Al Qaeda that has killed thousands of civilians in the region.

The outbreak of civil war in Somalia in the early 1990s crippled education services. By 1994, fighting had destroyed most schools, and teachers and students fled the country.

But Puntland has been able to rebuild much of its education system in recent years.

“During the civil war, all infrastructures were totally destroyed, and nothing was spared,” said Nazlin Umar Rajput, chairwoman of the National Muslim Council of Kenya and a human-rights advocate for minority groups across East Africa. “But now the education sector in Puntland has progressed systematically despite periods of civil war, unrest and drought that left thousands of people dead.”

In Puntland, the regional ministry of education develops curricula and manages public schools. Elsewhere in Somalia, including the federal capital, Mogadishu, schools are mostly private. They operate independently, follow different curricula and charge fees.


Nazlin Umar Rajput says educational services in Puntland are better than in other parts of Somalia because of its relative stability and security.

“Almost every child in Puntland is able to access education,” said Rajput. “The country has harmonized its curriculum and centralized examinations, unlike other regions.”

School enrollment in Puntland has also increased in recent years, as the government has built more schools, libraries, water projects and other facilities. The region now has more than 500 schools and more than 100,000 students. More than 5,000 teachers are registered here, though not all have official credentials. The average teacher-to-student ration is 20 to one.

Students attend two years of early childhood development classes, eight years of primary education, and four years of secondary education, according to the ministry of education. The region also has more than 10 universities.

Puntland’s education system has attracted international agencies that are now helping parents, teachers and the education ministry provide quality education for all children, said Rajput, making the region a role model to others emerging from conflict.

Recently, for example, the Global Partnership for Education, an international organization that works to ensure that poor children in developing countries receive a quality basic education, committed $5.6 million in grant money to assist Puntland’s efforts. The money will make education possible for more than 2,500 children from the region’s poorest households who might not have been able to attend school for financial reasons, like being kept out of classes by their parents to work.

“This grant will help thousands of children in Puntland go to school, stay in school and learn with qualified teachers,” Alice Albright, the partnership’s chief executive officer, said in October, when the grant was announced. “Other countries which have experienced civil war and drought can learn from Puntland,” she said.


A Somali child attends a mosque after a break from school.

Abshir Aw-Yusuf Isse, who was Puntland’s minister of education at the time, said the grant “will help us realize our vision of a quality education system that guarantees and fosters success for learners regardless of their abilities, and responds to and recognizes the potential of all learners.”

Central and southern Somalia have been difficult for donor groups to work with, due to security issues, Albright said.

Conflict and civil war often disrupt educational activities in those areas.

Rajput added that “insurgent groups also control what is taught in the curriculum because they control those areas.”

In Puntland, education officials said at least 200,000 children still do not attend school.

Still, parents praise what the ministry of education and international donors have accomplished.

“We are happy that our children can now access education,” said Zainab Hussein, a mother of six who has three children in school. “It was hard to go to school because of civil war and gender issues. But today the government cannot allow you to sit with your child at home without taking her to school.”

Ali, who is in grade 10, sees the progress as an opportunity to achieve his dream.

“I want become a doctor and help our people,” he said. “Our country has not enough doctors and people die every day.”

https://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2018/03/puntland-makes-strides-expanding-school-access/

 

[Factz]

Did you know that in Somaliland for the year 2014/2015 the number of schools were:

Primary schools: 1083
Secondary schools: 146
Vocational: 70
Universities: 19

Source: Somaliand Central Statistics Department (2015)

But well done to Somalia's states for tryna catch up

After bringing in facts. Look how triggered these Punanis got. Inferiority complex as usual.

 

[Crow]

After bringing in facts. Look how triggered these Punanis got. Inferiority complex as usual.

Why would we be jealous of this?

 

[Abdalla]

19 universities? Netherlands has 10 times bigger population and a zillion times bigger gdp and they have 12 universities

 

[Somali Crusader]

19 universities? Netherlands has 10 times bigger population and a zillion times bigger gdp and they have 12 universities

Nobody goes to Netherlands for schooling or values their education system that’s why they only have 12.

 

[SirLancelLord]

19 universities? Netherlands has 10 times bigger population and a zillion times bigger gdp and they have 12 universities

Thanks for comparing us to Netherlands so you see us as similar.

Does PL have that number of educational establishments as SL, I guess not....

 

[SirLancelLord]

19 universities? Netherlands has 10 times bigger population and a zillion times bigger gdp and they have 12 universities

Why you so triggered gotta chill out bro

 

[Abdalla]

Nobody goes to Netherlands for schooling or values their education system that’s why they only have 12.

Yes people prefer National University of Oodweyne

 

[Somali Crusader]

@Abdalla Tell me which PL school ever made it on the front of World News like Abaarso did for its academics ?
“
Somaliland to Ivy League: How one African school gets kids into top U.S. universities

By Alanna Petroff April 21, 2016: 9:25 AM ET


A small high school in Africa seems to have figured out a formula to get kids into top U.S. colleges and Ivy League universities on full scholarships.

Nearly 60 students who studied at Somaliland's Abaarso School have been accepted to American and international universities since 2013, including Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon.”

And that was back in 2016, they probably got a lot more through since then. This 1 school in SL shits on every other school in PL or Somalia combined . Quality >

 

[SirLancelLord]

Yes people prefer National University of Oodweyne

There isn't any there

 

[Saalax Bidaar]

Yeah but does Puntland have anything similar to Abaarso tech, Amoud, and Sheikh?

I don’t think so

 

[Abdalla]

Thanks for comparing us to Netherlands so you see us as similar.

Does PL have that number of educational establishments as SL, I guess not....

This is a neef daaqaya. Most of us joke around but this guy believes in the nonsense he writes. He's the type that would say 'I'm half Somali half Somalilander'.

 

[Abdalla]

@Abdalla Tell me which PL school ever made it on the front of World News like Abaarso did for its academics ?
“
Somaliland to Ivy League: How one African school gets kids into top U.S. universities

By Alanna Petroff April 21, 2016: 9:25 AM ET


A small high school in Africa seems to have figured out a formula to get kids into top U.S. colleges and Ivy League universities on full scholarships.

Nearly 60 students who studied at Somaliland's Abaarso School have been accepted to American and international universities since 2013, including Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon.”

And that was back in 2016, they probably got a lot more through since then. This 1 school in SL shits on every other school in PL or Somalia combined . Quality >

Abaarso is founded by a white man. SL or any Isaacs has zero to do with it.

 

[Somali Crusader]

This is a neef daaqaya. Most of us joke around but this guy believes in the nonsense he writes. He's the type that would say 'I'm half Somali half Somalilander'.

Somalia doesn’t have a monopoly on the term “Somali” , it was a thing long before the failed colonial project Somalia ever existed . You try to insult him by saying that but truly it’s you that’s the fool for thinking Somalia has monopoly on the term Somali

 

[Somali Crusader]

Abaarso is founded by a white man. SL or any Isaacs has zero to do with it.

Lame excuses . We are talking about the students at the end of the day anyway. We have smarter population

 

[Wei]

Yes people prefer National University of Oodweyne

I heard the graduation rate is a 100%.

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[Abdalla]

Somalia doesn’t have a monopoly on the term “Somali” , it was a thing long before the failed colonial project Somalia ever existed . You try to insult him by saying that but truly it’s you that’s the fool for thinking Somalis has monopoly on the term Somali

Oo adna yaad aheed?