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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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- 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 (...)
- Friday 5 October 2012
October 04, 2012 (KAMPALA) – The Secretary of finance for the South Sudanese Students’ Union in Uganda (SSSU) is in police custody in Kampala after being accused of forging signatures and withdrawing more than $50,000 without the (...)
- Friday 4 May 2012
By Ngor Arol Garang
May 3, 2012 (MALAKAL) - South Sudan has pledged to implement a policy to improve the country’s education system the Minister of Higher Education said on Wednesday.
South Sudanese school children (BBC/Simon (...)
- Thursday 21 March 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
March 20, 2013 (KAMPALA) - Unity state has approved 121,000 South Sudanese pounds (SSP) to allow secondary students to participate in May’s South Sudan National Football Federation school tournament in Wau. (...)
- Tuesday 22 February 2011
By Manyang Mayom
February 19, 2011 (KAMPALA) – Education in Lakes state faces the challenge of a high dropout rate of girls from learning institutions according to Robinson Odong Wani, the Education Field Coordinator for the Catholic (...)
- Wednesday 27 July 2011
by Toby Collins
July 26, 2011 (LONDON) – One of the world’s leading publishers of English Language teaching and school curriculum materials “agreed a civil recovery order of £11.2m (US$17.7m)“, for their actions in South Sudan, according (...)
- Wednesday 27 March 2013
March 26, 2013 (RUMBEK) – Students from South Sudan Lakes state, concerned by the increasing level of lawlessness in the region, have asked authorities to adhere to the country’s transitional constitution while governing citizens.
The (...)
- Sunday 15 February 2009
By John A. Akec
February 14, 2009 — With more than 30 universities in Sudan and with talk of declining academic standards and rising level of unemployment amongst university graduates in our country, one is led to believe that (...)
- Wednesday 6 June 2012
By John A. Akec
"The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flow downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness." - Liu Lau, THE WORKS OF MENCIUS, Book 4 Chapter 9 Section 2
June 5, 2012 — While South Sudan is the newest and (...)
- Thursday 19 August 2010
August 18, 2010 (JUBA) – The first Southern Sudan General Students Union has been established this week in the region’s capital, Juba, during a four-day conference attended by hundreds of students from various students unions in the ten (...)
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