Despite efforts to rebuild its education sector, Somalia still faces significant challenges like access to quality education, particularly due to the impact of prolonged conflict. Since the collapse of the central administration in 1990, there is lack of quality control, transparent and independent leadership, democracy representation though the national one is different with the global democracy aims and are still lack of goodwill forward and is not appear at all.
The Global Convention establishes universal principles for fair, transparent and non-discriminatory recognition of higher education qualifications and qualifications giving access to higher education and hgher education actors as well as stakeholders and offering avenues for further study and employment.
Obviously, the Global Convention is basically recalling and promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture. As result of that, Somalia was failed to do bilateral monitoring and evaluation process first, secondly while the nation’s community is Islam in religious-race there is no also any-kind of National Policy Plan (NPP) to improve community awareness and status sharing.
According to available information, Somalia has not explicitly signed a “Global Higher Education Convention,” but has actively engaged with UNESCO in efforts to strengthen its education system, particularly by ratifying the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, demonstrating its commitment to cultural preservation and education development through international agreements; this could be interpreted as a step towards aligning with global higher education standards through cultural preservation initiatives.
The convention was adopted in November 2019 at the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference. It became officially in force on March 5, 2023.
The convention’s goals are to:
- Establish universal principles for the recognition of higher education qualifications.
- Ensure that recognition is fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory.
- Provide opportunities for further study and employment.
Somalia has actively collaborated with UNESCO in developing strategies to improve its education system, including initiatives to enhance digital learning and rebuild damaged cultural sites. This includes recreating and refreshing the active participation of Somali Christians though UNESCO started its side to implement the treaty by creating a country webpage from within UNESCO page in which representing the voice and image of Somali Christian minority cultural heritage news coverage to determine also their historical existence in the Somali speaking territory of horn of Africa as by Somalian members from the state community.
The Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education is a legally binding United Nations treaty. Some countries have signed while others did not sign it.
Somalia has recently focused on ratifying UNESCO conventions related to safeguarding cultural heritage, including the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, showcasing its commitment to cultural preservation which can be linked to educational development.
The Somali Christian education community from Somalia people and their student’s community existence though are widely shared through UNECO websites and others from UN bodies from there is also active participation and referencing gatherings and events among UNESCO and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education in which the ministry delegates attended several times as workshops organized by UNESCO.
The Federation of Somalia Universities (FESU) will do further reports regarding the ongoing one-sided democracy-like representation from UNESCO and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education of the Federal Government of Somalia. The implantation of such treaty must be open and shared widely as well as included to the higher education stakeholders and the civil society networks from within the education sector.
Somalia to reach the 2030 goals aim democratically UNESCO needs to share all Somalis the higher education treaty awareness and its transparence induecourse!
