By
Ibrahim Ayeh
Agenda
 Major education crises in Somalia
 Issues that prevent children to go to schools
 How Somalia could provide equitable access to
basic education for all children
 Improving the quality of education for children
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Major education crises in Somalia
 School age children are under attack by terrorists
 Terrorists recruit youth to be militants who could do for them
suicide bombing activities - that includes school age children
 Terrorists intimidate and kill youth who has promising future
by attacking graduation and scholarship ceremonies to say
the least
 Terrorist intimidate, kidnap, and kill humanitarian aid
workers for the needed children and their families
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Major education crises in Somalia
cont’d
 Because there is no free basic education available to all
children, there is large percent of children who are denied
from their basic rights to education.
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 Rural area has no secondary or middle schools available to
children to attend, this forces a lot of children to drop out
from school – mainly in the nomadic areas.
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 Somalia needs badly teacher training workshops that will
upgrade the qualification of the teachers and their
instructional methods – for example diversification of
instructions , and moving the learning from teacher centered
learning to student centered learning.
Major issues that prevent Somali
children to go to schools
 War, hunger, malnutrition, poverty,
droughts, floods, and diseases. Haiti and Somalia are the two worst
countries in the world which schoolage child are not getting education (UN
report)
Major issues that prevent Somali children
to go to schools ……. Cont’d
 Recommendations:
We could improve the surrounding environment that causes children not
to participate in schools by doing the following:
 Strong commitment of international community to stabilize Somalia
 Creating strong advocacy group from the Diaspora to promote the
Peace Settlement in Somalia
 Empowering the Somali leaders on good and fair governance
 Implementation of education policies that will adopt UN
Millennium goal of development, UNICEF initiative to abolish fees,
and programs on Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) by UNICEF
Equitable access to basic education for
all children
Recommendation
Somalia could provide equitable access to basic education for
all children (girls & boys) by doing the following:
 Free and compulsory education
 Building boarding school for rural area students
 Rising parent and community awareness to the
importance of education for all their children
 Abolition of arranged marriage for under age girls that
will deprive the child from school
Section IV
Improving the quality of
education for the children
in Somalia
THE NUMBER OF PP
TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS
400
350
300
250
Total Tea.
PP. Tea.
200
150
100
50
0
PRIM.
SEC
Curriculum Resource Material
STATEMENTS
SA
A
DA
There are a sufficient text books for students
X
There are reference material for teachers
X
There are maps, charts, & posters in class room.
X
There are science labs in secondary schools
X
There are science lab equipments in the schools.
X
There are hands on material for most subjects
High school students have access to library
SDA
X
X
Improving the quality of education
for the children in Somalia
Recommendations
 Since teachers can only be what the system have trained for, and
students are what their teachers can provide we need to create a
summer institutes that could provide teachers the necessary
training and Staff Development they need.
 We need to improve resource material for instructions, like
science labs, and hands on material that can be locally created
 We need to improve facilities for sports recreation activities by
protecting and rehabbing school playgrounds and parks.
Improving the quality of education for
the children in Somalia ------ Cont’d
Recommendations
 Enriching the curriculum by adding character education
that will improve the child’s future civic responsibilities,
and moral ethics.
 Creating small libraries/store in all school where teachers
could have access when they need reference material that
will enrich their instructions.
 We need to create central library at least in the cities -
libraries are needed in order children to have and
opportunities to research and to have lifelong learning.
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END