Somali school enrollment grew from two thousand to thirty-one thousand between 1950 and 1957.

Evidence

An ambitious and imaginative scheme for general education crystallized in a five-year development programme launched in 1952 with UNESCO collaboration. New state schools providing free education replaced the mission schools upon which the Italians had relied in the past; and by 1957 some 31,000 children and adults of both sexes were enrolled in primary schools, 246 in junior secondary schools, 336 in technical institutes, and a few hundred more in higher educational institutions. This represented a notable advance on the situation in 1950 when little more than two thousand students were receiving education. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 380

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete quantitative marker of the educational transformation that anchors the trusteeship’s progressive narrative.
• XREF: connects to: British administration doubled Somali school enrolment within a few years — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 329

Related

• British administration doubled Somali school enrolment within a few years (similarity 0.89)
• Somalia dispatched 30,000 students to bring mass literacy to nomads (similarity 0.78)