- Somaliland remains unrecognized internationally but one school is placing the country on the world map.
Elms
School, a privately run institution in Hargeisa will this week be feted
among the best schools offering the British system of education in the
world.
The school has been invited to the Accreditation Service
for International Schools, Colleges and Universities{ASIC} international
conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on November 13-14 where they will
be awarded as one of the best performing schools. Elms School, the first
international school in Somaliland capital, Hargeisa.
Elm School
is considered to be in the same league as international private
institutions in terms of education quality and status. It was
established in April 2007, the school has more than two thousand
students.
The school has a seal of approval for quality education,
and is accredited by the British Accreditation Service for
International Colleges and schools (ASIC) and is cleared to offer
international British system of education.
The institution also
provides the Kenya’s 8-4-4 system, which is slowly being phased out to
be replaced by the Competency-Based Curriculum, that is being rolled out
making it the first school in Somaliland to implement it.
It has a
kindergarten, lower and upper primary and a secondary school. These
units are dotted across the fast-growing city of Hargeisa.
“It is a
great honour to be feted by ASIC. It is proof that we are giving our
children the best education,” said Benson Samia, a senior administrator
in the school.
Over 70 Kenyans are working in the school as teachers.
“Kenyan
teachers have offered us quality education both the 8-4-4 system and
the international system. We also have teachers who we have absorbed
locally from Somaliland. It’s a multicultural institution,” adds Samia.
BY ODINDO AYIEKO
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