{"id":23186,"date":"2019-10-01T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:39:19","slug":"somalias-goal-restructure-educ-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/somalias-goal-restructure-educ-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia\u2019s goal: Restructure the education system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 1991, Somalia\u2019s education system has been deterred by the civil war. Notably, the Somalia government has been battling Islamist insurgents, such as <\/b>Al-Shabaab<\/b><\/a>, for years as they have wreaked havoc. <\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe civil war crippled Somalia\u2019s education system to the extent that children no longer attended school. Nevertheless, the administration intends to revamp this sector through the introduction of a new curriculum for primary and secondary schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somalia\u2019s divided education system<\/b><\/h2>\n

After the civil war broke, clan warlords were involved in intense battles in the control of the education system.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAs a result, at least 40 curricula were introduced, and this created competing education structures in different languages.<\/b>
\nThis was detrimental as the education system became considerably divided, and this affected learners\u2019 outcomes. For instance, Muhidin\u2019s school utilized Kenyan textbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somalia seeks to revamp its education sector<\/b><\/h2>\n

Through the introduction of a new curriculum, the Somalia government intends to restructure the education system so that the needs and interests of the learners can be amicably attained.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, since August 2019, it has printed 2 million textbooks and distributed them to pupils across the nation.<\/b> The new books will cover social studies, technology, physical education, science, Islamic studies, maths, Somali, Arabic, and English.\u00a0<\/span>
\nMuhidin\u2019s School has acknowledged that this is a positive move because the new curriculum is crafted to meet the needs and interests of the learners. The school previously utilized the Kenyan syllabus that was English based, and this proved cumbersome to some students.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somalia\u2019s low enrollment rate<\/b><\/h2>\n

Somalia is categorized as one of the nations with the lowest enrollment rates globally.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAccording to the United Nations, the country has only 4 out of 10 children in school<\/b>. This trend can be depicted by the nation\u2019s education budget that amounted to $16 million in 2019 as compared to the stipulated $344 million.\u00a0<\/span>
\nDuring the civil war, Somalia\u2019s schools sourced textbooks from at least ten (10) countries, whereby Somali was replaced as the instruction language by Arabic and English.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAccording to Abdulkadir Mohamed Sheikh, a teacher at Muhidin\u2019s School, students are continuously coping well with the introduced curriculum as it is founded on their vernacular, culture, and religion.\u00a0<\/b>
\nOn the other hand, <\/span>South African universities<\/span><\/a> are struggling to address the food insecurity problem on their campuses as students coming from poor families suffer most in food insecurity problem.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 1991, Somalia\u2019s education system has been deterred by the civil war. Notably, the Somalia government has been battling Islamist insurgents, such as Al-Shabaab, for years as they have wreaked havoc. \u00a0 The civil war crippled Somalia\u2019s education system to the extent that children no longer attended school. Nevertheless, the administration intends to revamp this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}