PROLIFERATION OF UNIVERSITIES BRINGS MIXED BAG OF FORTUNES TO SOMALIA
September 1st, 2016
As guns continue to go silent in Somalia’s waning civil conflicts, exponential growth has been witnessed in the country’s higher education sector, although there are mixed reviews about the quality of education offered by the country’s new independent universities.
Before the 1988 civil war and subsequent collapse of the central government in 1991, Somalia had only one state-owned university, the Somali National University. The university - established in Mogadishu in 1970 - was forced to close in 1989 due to the instability, only to reopen 25 years later, ...
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