CONCERNS GROW ABOUT A DEARTH OF TERTIARY SCIENCE COURSES IN DEVELOPING SOMALIA

EXPERTS have raised concerns about what they regard an over concentration on arts and sharia-based courses by Somalia universities, when country’s re-emerging peacetime economy has a desperate need for science, business and industrial graduates. A permanent political settlement in Somalia is still awaited, but the country is far more stable than the outright civil war and anarchy of the past – and so, say commentators, need more practical science expertise than the country’s universities and colleges produce. “If you compare our graduates to the rest of ...


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