BPC Created Service Standards and Business Ethics Program for Community Pharmacies

One set of skills which the college intends to change is the services and products currently available at pharmacy shops in Bardera. Pharmaceutical wholesalers in Mogadishu and other port cities throughout Somalia, have been importing drugs not up to quality, to say the least. 

Bardera Polytechnic College (BPC) programs  emphasize the importance of  ethics in pharmacy and medical services in general. Various program directors work with community members to transfer academic teachings into practical enforcement at individual and business levels.

Periodically, the college will offer lectures and seminars dealing with issues of intrerest. Also available will be printed material for business guidelines drafted from community gatherings. Expecations will be businesses to provide services and products with acceptable quality.  

The new vision for improving the quality of services and products were some of the founder's initial observations for a way to uplift the community overall. The creation of Bardera Polytechnic College was in the plans for two years before it was established in July 2008 on a rented facility in the center of Bardera town. Bardera Polytechnic College has over 100 full time students and 6 instructors for 2008-2009 school year . 

The advantage Bardera Poltyechnic brought to the scene is the availability of newly-trained health sector workers when the first batch of students graduate in June 2010. Nurses already trained at BPC's health program have been taking part in community health services where they have performed community health services in towns and villages surrounding Bardera such as Sarinleey, Daar, Faafaxdhuun, Shanqolow and other towns.  

At the present, Bardera Polytechnic College is one of only a few skills training tertiary education centers in the Jubba Valley Regions. University of Gedo and Kismayo University are the only other tertiary schools in the Jubba Valley Regions area. 

Aside from Gedo and Lower Jubba, other regions which will benefit from Bardera Polytechnic graduates will be Middle Jubba, Bay, Bakol, Hiiraan, Galgadud and the two Shabelle regions. Banadir Region, the Somali capital region area, has more than three universities currently in operation.

Before the civil war, Somali National University and Lafoole University, Somali's then only two universities, were both in or near the capital. As of 2008, there are over dozen universities and colleges in the country.