MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – At least 250 participants, including high-level government officials, scholars, education practitioners, the private sector, civil society, and international partners have today gathered in Mogadishu to participate in National Education Conference.
The conference hosted by Somali Education Ministry is expected to focus on enhancing accessible quality Education for the country.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his prime minister Hamze Abdi Barre will attend the opening of the conference which will run for two days.
The conference comes barely two weeks after Prime minister Barre pledged that his government would invest in education as a priority in helping to set a strong foundation towards rectifying some of the problems bedevilling the country. He said Somalia will ensure the quality of education is enhanced to help thousands of learners across the country.
Early this year, government led by president Mohamud announced that the country will hire a record 3,000 new teachers to try to bridge a wide education gap.
The move follows a four-fold increase in the Somali ministry of education’s budget for 2023
For three decades, Somalia has struggled with a dysfunctional education system following the civil war in the 1990s.
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