National exams for grade 12 to start on May 27

GOOBJOOG NEWS|SOMALIA: Unified national examinations for grade 12 students will take place on May 27, the Ministry of Education has said.

The Ministry said the examinations will be conducted from May 27 and involve students who have completed their form four studies. The exercise will take place in all the Federal Member States and Banaadir Region except Puntland which has since declined to allow its students to participate.

This will be the ninth year the unified exams are being conducted since the first batch of 7,000 students sat for the exam in 2015. Before then, umbrella organisations administered exams based on different syllabi borrowed from countries such as Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

Prime Minister Hamze Barre lashed out at Puntland government this week for its move to isolate itself from the rest of the country noting this was tantamount to derailing the development of the country and the debt relief process.