Somalia: Education Must Be a Top Priority
Governments shape their people to become productive and efficient by educating them. Since the end of the civil war, the education sector has been steadily improving, with government officials and businessmen, realizing the importance of education for the country's long-term development, working to revive it. However, it has led to a situation outside the control of the government, with various confusing systems and structures used in primary and secondary schools, which have adopted any system preferred by the owners. Even the school term and the textbooks used vary from school to school in different parts of the country. Curriculum The wane quality of education in Somalia has been fueled by a variety of educational systems. The country's curriculum was introduced less than eight years ago. Before that, it was taught in different curricula due to the lack of quality of Somali students, as well as the dwindling of the Somali language, although now the curriculum is written in t