Mogadishu (PP Editorial) — The scholarships that the Italian authorities has awarded to graduates of Somali universities mark a brand new period in reviving the upper schooling ties between Somalia and Italy. Italy performed an vital position in enhancing the institutional improvement of the pre-1991 Somali Nationwide College, notably the departments that used Italian because the medium of instruction. It was an open secret within the mid-Eighties and afterwards that departments utilizing English because the medium of instruction lagged behind in requirements in comparison with these utilizing Italian because the language of instruction.
The instructing of Italian for a 12 months earlier than college students started their college schooling was a key differentiator. College students carrying their libro bianco to the previous campus of the Somali Nationwide College, close to Casa Italia in central Mogadishu, was a standard sight. This language programme, together with Italian language courses at Il Centro Culturale Italiano close to Radio Mogadishu, ensured that college students attained a excessive stage of proficiency in Italian for tutorial functions. The much-lauded evaluation system of oral and written examinations, dreaded by many college students, was as extremely thought to be the Oxbridge tutorials.
The cooperation between Somalia and Italy in increased schooling produced succesful graduates in varied fields. It will be helpful to reintroduce the choice of utilizing Italian as a medium of instruction at some universities in Somalia to handle the execrable requirements in departments that at present use English because the medium of instruction. Earlier this 12 months, SIMAD College and Luiss College fashioned an “educational collaboration that included joint analysis initiatives, information trade, and twin diploma programmes.”
Earlier than 1991, all departments of the Somali Nationwide College have been situated in Mogadishu, aside from the School of Schooling and the Division of Agriculture. For the upper schooling cooperation between Somalia and Italy to succeed, the Federal Authorities of Somalia and the Italian Authorities can discover methods to permit universities in Federal Member States to learn from scholarship and collaboration alternatives.
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