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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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- Wednesday 5 October 2011
October 4, 2011 (JUBA) – Secondary school students from Wau in Western Bahr el-Ghazal (WBEG) State held a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday calling for new leadership in the local government, South Sudan’s Radio Good News has reported. (...)
- Wednesday 21 March 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
March 19, 2012 (BENTIU) – Unity state authorities on Monday toured on Tuesday eight examination centres in the capital, Benitu. Acting governor Samuel Lony Geng witnessing student taking exams in Bentiu (...)
- Wednesday 24 August 2011
August 23, 2011 (JUBA) - Central Equatoria’s governor Clement Wani Konga on Tuesday announced his approval of the establishment of a teachers union as a professional board to regulate the profession in the state. Students take part in (...)
- Sunday 12 November 2006
Nov 10, 2006 (JUBA, Southern Sudan) — For the first time in the history of this war-torn region, a major survey has made it possible to identify the location and conditions of thousands of learning spaces – many of them ‘bush schools’ (...)
- Saturday 18 April 2009
By Philip Thon Aleu
April 16, 2009 (BOR) – Students at John Garang Institute of Science and Technology – Bor, who have been "patient enough", met on Wednesday April 15 to determine their ’academic future’ stranded at Government Southern (...)
- Thursday 1 November 2012
October 31, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan Police dressed in riot gear allegedly fired live bullets at student protesters throwing stones and using knives after a demonstration over land ownership turned violent on Wednesday. Police (...)
- Monday 7 April 2008
By Isaac Vuni
April 4, 2008 (JUBA) — The USAID is in solidarity with the government of southern Sudan because the twenty one years of protracted war left the south devastated with dead toll of over two million and worst destroyed the (...)
- Sunday 30 January 2011
By Amoko Robert
January 27, 2011 (JUBA) - The governor of Western Equatoria State (WES), Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro, has encouraged the girls in his state to prioritise in education.
Addressing female students at Yambio Cultural Centre (...)
- Friday 8 March 2013
March 7, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese students in Egypt have appealed to the government in Juba to intervene and rescue them from a dire financial situation which has affected their studies in the Arab Republic of Egypt. South Sudanese (...)
- Friday 4 June 2004
MOMBASA, Kenya, June 4, 2004 (Xinhua) — Sudanese government Friday unveiled a comprehensive post-conflict education blueprint, guaranteeing transfer of three universities to southern Sudan, currently controlled by the rebel Sudan (...)
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