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South Sudan is believed to have the worst literacy rate in the world, behind even Mali and Niger. A July 2012 report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) found that less than 2 percent of the population has completed primary school education.
Adult Literacy: 27 percent (2009)
Primary School Enrollment
- 2006: 700,000
- 2010: 1.6 million
Government Education Spending
South Sudan allocates 16 percent of the national budget to education. However opposition political parties and aid agencies claim the real figure is less than 10 percent.
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- Saturday 9 March 2013
March 8, 2013 (BOR) - Hundreds South Sudanese citizens and political leaders converged on Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday, where speakers called for early marriage and violence against (...)
- Wednesday 11 July 2012
July 9, 2012 (PANYAGOOR) - Jonglei State’s Twic East County celebrated the first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on Monday calling for peace and an end to food security in the area. A group of women dancing in the field at (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 11, 2013 (YEI/JUBA) – The British government, through its Department for International Development (DFID), has donated 200 primary school textbooks and teacher guides to Yei Teacher Training College (YTTC).
The books, DIFID said in (...)
- Tuesday 23 April 2013
April 22, 2013 (BOR) - The first South Sudan secondary examinations for 2013 have come under severe criticism from the candidates in Jonglei state who said the papers had errors in them. Malek Academy students in the examination room, (...)
- Saturday 13 August 2011
August 12, 2011 (JUBA) – The government of the Republic of South Sudan has resolved to increase salaries of university staff in order to attract teaching professionals to take up the profession in the newly independent nation.
At a (...)
- Sunday 1 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
June 30, 2012 (JUBA) - The University of Juba’s College of Medicine on Friday received a donation of over books worth $350,000; all courtesy of the World Health Organization (WHO) country office in Juba, South Sudan. (...)
- Monday 18 March 2013
March 17, 2013 (DUBAI) – Over 500 delegates from around the world have converged in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to discuss the future of global education and how the sector can be improved and fully accessed by all.
A (...)
- Wednesday 20 March 2013
March 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan languished at the lower end of the latest Human Development Index (HDI) published recently by the United Nations, ranking 171 out of 187 countries included world-wide.
While the ranking puts Sudan (...)
- Tuesday 30 April 2013
April 29, 2013 (KAMPALA) – Peter Ayom moved to Uganda with his family fleeing insecurity, a poor health care and the fledgling education system in Jonglei state to find a better future for his two children and five other relatives who (...)
- Wednesday 24 April 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
April 23, 2013 (BENTIU) - South Sudan’s Unity state ran out national examination papers for secondary school students on Monday officials from state Ministry of Education admitted on Tuesday. Peter Par Nhial (...)
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