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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 6 January 2012
January 5, 2012 (JUBA) - The annual internal report by South Sudan’s ministry of general education and instruction released on Thursday indicated an increase in enrolment at all educational levels since its establishment as educational (...)
- Wednesday 2 June 2010
June 1, 2010 (JUBA) — Jane Aketch remembers the struggle to achieve education all too well. For four years, she fought with her parents to allow her to attend primary education.
"My sisters all went to primary seven and then dropped (...)
- Monday 21 November 2011
By John A. Akec
November 19, 2011 — The Academics and Researchers Forum for Development (ARFD), in Collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, the Republic of South Sudan; organised a (...)
- Tuesday 4 December 2012
December 2, 2012 (KAMPALA) – Students from three of South Sudan’s Equatoria states said they are “dissatisfied” with the union’s leadership and announced their non-participation until the problems are rectified.
Members of the South (...)
- Tuesday 12 February 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 11, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Twenty South Sudanese police cadets have started scholarships at an Ethiopian military academy in an effort to improve the professionalism of the force which is regularly (...)
- 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 (...)
- Thursday 20 October 2011
By Machien J. Luoi
October 18, 2011 — Recently the Minister of Higher Education in the Republic of South Sudan, Dr. Adwok Nyaba, announced the suspension of private universities, citing lack of infrastructure, standardised curriculums (...)
- Monday 19 March 2012
March 18, 2012 (BOR) - At the opening of a church, school and a clinic built by a local businessman on Sunday the bishop of Bor diocese said development programs in villages of South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei State shows the potential (...)
- Friday 14 July 2006
By Omer M Shurkian*
July 10, 2006 — It may be argued that a language is a natural instinct whereby human beings could express their desires, demand their basic rights, learn new skills and acquire lifelong experiences. Nonetheless, (...)
- Wednesday 1 August 2012
July 31, 2012 (PIBOR) – Pibor county of Jonglei state lacks basic teaching facilities, according to the headteacher of a local school. Head teacher of Pibor Basic Primary School, Samuel Logidang Korok, Pibor, Jongeli, South Sudan, July (...)
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