Author
Dr. Abdishakur Sh Hassan Faqih, Associate professor, Faculty of Education, Mogadishu University
A Study Analysis on Challenges and Opportunities for Somali education system (2016-2021)
Abstract
The Somali education system came through a difficult transition from total destruction into recovery scheme. While progress was achieved over the last years in the provision of the development of public education, the frequency ensuing period of insecurity led to a disruption of normal socio-economic life in many areas of the country. Consequently, the country has incorporated matters of education quality reform and policymaking processes. It is therefore clear that education sector in the country is facing different challenges, opportunities and trends requiring reforms in the management and governance styles.
The rise of partners, internal factors, together with the rapid pace is created and utilized. There is an
urgent need for institutions of quality performs to adjust rapidly the needs of the education system, and to deal with some of these trends, challenges and developments.
The study objectives are outlining the lines of change affecting education systems in the last four years (2016-2020) to review the challenges and opportunity in the performance and its progress including
the capacity and gaps. Actual fieldwork was carried out in federal and federal state institution capacity in general with the understanding that there are significant differences across the different regions of Somalia.
The findings are challenges of high rates of school abrasion and poor learning outcomes, as well as weak capacities, limited available resource, which effective services deliver, there is a growing need for regulation in all education sectors and coordination challenges in decentralized education sector provision. The needs come into key factors across the subsectors that could affect learning and enrolment in the schools.
