Secondary
and Higher Education needs of South Sudan
With a peace dividend
in the Sudan ever looking more likely as progress is made
in the peace talks the country, especially South Sudan faces
a gigantic task of social and economic reconstruction and
rehabilitation.
A story of two generations
in pursuit of education
This is a story of two men in Western Upper Nile Province
of Sudan and their pursuit of education in South Sudan and
outside. The writer spent over one month inside South Sudan
from June 25 to 2nd August 2002 on assignment for an International
Non-Governmental Agency.
The
girl child and education in South Sudan
Petronas Dutt, a petit and lanky 12-year old girl is all
smiles as she answers questions in halting broken English
as her classmates giggle with amusement. At her school in
Akot in the Lakes Province of South Sudan, she is one of the
80 girls in a school with 220 pupils in a good day and she
was enjoying herself.
The
Case for Adult Education Campaign in Sudan
With a national illiteracy level of 90 per cent in South
Sudan and at between 70 per cent for North Sudan, the need
for an Adult Education Campaign in the Country is one of the
most pressing national problem that the country faces.
A
brief historical overview of the sudanese educational system
development and growth
Sudan, Africa’s largest country also leads the continent
in many other ways. It has the rare distinction of being at
the bottom of nearly all-social indices in human development,
ranging from poverty to education, life expectancy to child
mortality to name just a few.
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