Experts and officials discuss
single curriculum standards for informal and formal
education
Adnan Dahir Muhumed
University of Hargeisa
Hargeisa
Education experts and officials
recently discussed the best way of matching different
curricula in the informal and formal schools.
They concluded two days of
meetings in Maansoor Hotel, Hargeisa, this week during
which they had a long discussion and exchange of ideas
to start up plans that will eventually result a single
framework for the diversified education curriculums.
The meeting was attended by
officials from the ministry of education, national
education development center, national examination board
and education experts from Somaliland universities and
some authors of the national curriculum. International
NGOs that support education were also present in the
discussion.
The participants analyzed how
students of the informal education schools, that are
dominant in the rural areas, can be transferred to the
school education systems smoothly. Some educationists
said that informal schools are effective in some areas,
where they said students of Grade 2 in the informal
schools have the mindset or learning skills of Grade 3
in the formal Schools.
The director general of the
ministry of education, Eng. Ali Abdi Odowaa, speaking at
the closing ceremony, said; The ministry of education
has officially submitted a national education policy
that will govern all education systems of the country
both formal and informal schools and this meeting is
about improving new ways that will tie informal
education to the formal system.
The director paid his tribute to
Save the Children/Denmark for their support to the
informal schools. He said; I am very thankful to SCF/Denmark
for their hands on the continuation of informal schools.
But I ask for them to expand their support to the other
regions they have not yet reached, especially in the
rural areas.
International and local NGOs, and
UN organizations support Somaliland Ministry of
education.
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