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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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- Monday 17 June 2013
June 16, 2013 (BOR) - The mayor of Bor town municipality, Nhial Majak Nhial, has pledged to push for a pay raise for teachers, as one way of improving the quality of education in the state. Achii Deng, 16, who lost her arm in a car (...)
- Saturday 9 March 2013
March 8, 2013 (BOR) - Hundreds South Sudanese citizens and political leaders converged on Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday, where speakers called for early marriage and violence against (...)
- Wednesday 11 July 2012
July 9, 2012 (PANYAGOOR) - Jonglei State’s Twic East County celebrated the first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on Monday calling for peace and an end to food security in the area. A group of women dancing in the field at (...)
- Tuesday 23 April 2013
April 22, 2013 (BOR) - The first South Sudan secondary examinations for 2013 have come under severe criticism from the candidates in Jonglei state who said the papers had errors in them. Malek Academy students in the examination room, (...)
- Thursday 20 October 2011
19 October 2011 (KAMPALA) – Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni says his country will send teachers to South Sudan as an effort to help the new nation build its human capacity and recover from decades of conflict that have badly affected (...)
- Monday 18 March 2013
March 17, 2013 (DUBAI) – Over 500 delegates from around the world have converged in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to discuss the future of global education and how the sector can be improved and fully accessed by all.
A (...)
- Wednesday 24 April 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
April 23, 2013 (BENTIU) - South Sudan’s Unity state ran out national examination papers for secondary school students on Monday officials from state Ministry of Education admitted on Tuesday. Peter Par Nhial (...)
- 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 (...)
- Friday 7 June 2013
June 5, 2013 (RUMBEK) – Students from Rumbek University in Lakes state threatened to burn down the campus unless their classes resume this month during a protest on Monday. Students in Rumbek staged a protest on Monday, demanding the (...)
- Tuesday 5 March 2013
March 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities on Monday raided the Aslan center in Khartoum which specialises in teaching English as a second language and informed its managers that they are shutting it down.
Security officers came (...)
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