Somalia

The first school for teachers was built in 1957 in British Somaliland to train nationals to staff the elementary schools. In 1972, a two-year course for primary teachers was established at the National Teachers' Education Center. A third school for primary teachers was built in 1974 in Hargeisa. In 1963, the Lafole College of Education, 40 miles from Mogadishu, was built to train secondary teachers. In the late 1960s, the length of the training at Lafole was three years; it was later reduced to two years and a summer in the 1970s, and it was increased to three years in 1980s. The Technical Teacher Training College (TTTC) in Mogadishu was created in 1978 to prepare teachers for vocational and technical education. The duration of its courses is three years. The college of education at the Somali National University also prepared secondary school teachers in a two-year program. These teachers training colleges, including the Somali National University, were destroyed by the civil war.