Juba release admission results for four South Sudanese universities

By John Actually

April 22, 2011 (BOR) — South Sudan’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology has finally released the admission results for the four Southern Universities of Upper Nile, Juba , Bahr El-Ghazal and Rumbek.

The undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology Mou Athian announced the results in a press conference held on Wednesday, 21, April in the South Sudanese capital Juba.

The total number of students who applied to the Sudanese universities for this year intakes was over 215, 000. But the number of thoses who applied to southern Universities was 4,513, out of which only 2,716 admitted and 1,797 rejected, the official underscored.

Among the admitted for the southern universities, 1,310 students are admitted to Juba University, 599 students to University of Bahr el Ghazal, 441 students to Upper Nile University and 372 students to Rumbek University.

GARANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OMITTED

Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology which is recognized last year as South Public University did not appear in the list of Southern Universities whose new students are admitted to.

The Vice Chancellor of Garang memorial University, Professor Aggrey Ayuen said Sudan’s Minister for Higher education, Peter Aduok did not notify the admission board in Khartoum about the readiness of Garang University to host 40 students in each of its four existing faculties of Law, Environmental Studies, Agriculture and Science and Technology, making a total of 160 students.

Professor Aggrey, who is appointed last March as the Vice-Chancellor expressed the readiness of his University to host 160 new students this year.

Dr. John Garang de Mabior Institute of Science and Technology in Bor was established in 2008 by former Governor Philip Thon Leek in an agreement with ASCOM Co., a Moldovan oil company operating in Jonglei.

Since Garang University was established as a branch of Moldova International University (ULIM) in 2008, only 104 qualified students were admitted to the four existing faculties of Pharmaceutical Technology, Ecology, Law and forestry and Public Garden with 26 students per Faculty.

Some of these faculties were changed; Forestry and Public Garden was changed to faculty of Agriculture, Ecology was renamed as Environmental studies, pharmaceutical technology was changed to Science and Technology.

In February 2009, South Sudan government took the University from Moldovan authorities and Professor Aggrey was nominated by GoSS president, Salva Kiir as the Vice Chancellor after south pledged to clear 2 million Sudanese pounds for the premises and other assets put in by Moldovans. This caused a loss of one academic year when South Sudanese found it hard to find some money to run the University.

In March 2010, the Sudanese President, Omer Hassan Al-Bashirin a presidential decree, recognized the institute as university and appointed Professor Aggrey Ayuen as the Vice Chancellor.

(ST)