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South Sudan
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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- Friday 15 February 2013
February 14, 2013 (BOR) - The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) announced on Thursday at a ceremony in Jonglei state that it will sponsor 40 South Sudanese students through secondary school in 2013. The principal of Malek Academy addressing (...)
- Thursday 16 April 2009
By Isaac Vuni
April 15, 2009 (JUBA) – St. Mary’s University of Juba was inaugurated today by the Government of Southern Sudan’s state Minister of Gender, Social Welfare and Religious Affairs, Mary Kiden Kimbo.
The university is the (...)
- 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 (...)
- Saturday 8 September 2012
September 7, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan, on Friday, officially launched a nationwide campaign as part of the "education for all programme", seeking a 50 percent reduction in adult illiteracy among its population by 2015. Pupils of (...)
- Wednesday 2 March 2011
By Manyang Mayom
March 1, 2011 (RUMBEK) - The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the Catholic University of Sudan based in Wau is in need of lecturers.
Fr. Solomon Ewot, member of the Congregation of the Apostles (...)
- Monday 16 April 2012
April 15, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese interior ministry today said that it has permanently suspended all South Sudan students from its Police Academy over gestures they made in celebration of the fall of Heglig, which took place (...)
- Saturday 27 April 2013
April 24, 2013 (BOR) - Jonglei state’s governor Kuol Manyang Juuk, has set January of next year as a deadline for all ministers, MPs and top civil servants to bring their families back to South Sudan. Jonglei Governor, Kuol Mangang Juuk (...)
- Monday 14 May 2012
May 13, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s Minister of Higher Education has closed all privately owned learning institutions with “immediate effect” leaving thousands of students without a place to study.
Higher Education Minister, Peter (...)
- Saturday 18 February 2012
February 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese police in the early morning of Friday raided dormitories of the University of Khartoum and arrested over three hundred students in anticipation of a new protest they planned to stage this weekend. (...)
- Thursday 23 February 2012
February 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The University of Khartoum (UoK) in Sudan has announced it will resume study on 18 March after nearly three months of suspension and less than 24 hours since the police raided its dormitories and rounded (...)
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