The Founder of Somaliland Path to Succees in Education

To be honest with our readers, I am here by submitting one of the best assets in Somaliland, Professor Sulaiman Ahmed Gulet; he is Tom, Dick or Harry which means ordinary person, since we have been experiencing his talent through his knowledge, experience, skills, role and responsibilities in which he plays a major role in Somaliland education sub-sector.

Lecturer
It was beautiful in the country the sun has just spread its light all over the earth’s surface, the moisture of Sog-sog plants has revealed the appearance of the land, it was breezy morning, on early 2002, the students were very happy and satisfy about the close coming class of Introduction to Psychology of Prof, Sulaiman, the students were discussing and shouting in the bus with a good manner, my classmates who were composed of 50 students from different regions of Somaliland, including Gabiley, Hargeisa and of course Borama have just ride of the bus and run to the classes where Professor Sulaiman has been allocated to give us the designed lecture of that period, we were very pleasant to listen carefully the introduction of [Theory of Forgetting] like Pro-Active and Retro-Active that Prof; Sulaiman was explaining accordingly, more over he classified the terms of Pro-active, Retro-active and Decay theory, they way alphabets of P for Pen and B for Books has been classified, both we were surprisingly subjected to the topic.

Indeed he was the only lecturer who presented materials clearly, logically and enabled us to understand the basic principles of the subject. Further more he has also made materials intelligibly meaningful and showed us an expert knowledge of subject matter, also gets students to work willingly, for the time being readily considered students view points, and has good sense of humor, appears confident and had good pleasant modulated voice; absolutely he was the right person at the right time with the right position

Educational Management & Administration
When it comes to Educational management and administration, Prof: Sulaiman has made enormous remarkable success on designing, developing and effecting educational objectives and resources, and for the time being acquired and allocated recourse to achieve the predetermined educational goals in Amoud University and has effected the system of education through out the country, the number of students in primary schools of Somaliland have increased from 30% up to 80%, and currently estimated around 180, 000 students, the number of school buildings also have increased from 20% up to 40%, the number of Universities that came under Amoud establishment in the country stands around 4, including Hargeisa University, Gollis College, Burao University, and Admis University College of Ethiopian branch in Somaliland, the graduates from Amoud are currently at the age of 6 years old, we are Sulaiman’s product to be promoted, priced and placed in the market of S/land and the world as well, I wish if we could have 10 professors like Sulaiman.

Charismatic Leader ship Style
On the other hand Prof: Sulaiman has encouraged and helped others, like other Institutions [Hargeisa and Burao Universities, and Gollis College] to work enthusiastically toward a dynamic situation.
His influence of human factor that binds a group together and motivates it towards ambition by transforming the group’s potentials into reality is always palpable.

More over his capacity and participation including: intelligence, alertness, verbal facility, originality, judgment, sociability, cooperation, adoptability and humor has led us into the success of path in education through out the country.

Consequently his decision making on problem solving both educationally and socially are obvious, on the other hand he acted a key role in part taking the educational improvement and community development, as community building, capacity building and social capital, as a wise proverb says charity begins at home, Sulaiman started the foundation to construct a systematic way & initially contributed his knowledge to Amoud, and Borama Utility Company.Currently he is the Chairman of Board of Directors of eastern African Universities [African Virtual University].

To cut a long story short he has faced common problems that are coming from small part of the community who think negatively, he continues his efforts to take three steps ahead of the beck (making more progress), and this is a tangible facts that we can feel and touch.

By: Mohamed Farah Elmi
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Suldaan22@hotmail.com