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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 25 May 2012
May 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Nearly 40 students undergoing military training as part of mandatory national service in Sudan’s northern Nile River State have been quarantined after they contracted measles.
The measles outbreak started two (...)
- Friday 16 November 2012
Doha, Qatar- UNICEF South Sudan today signed a three-year agreement with Educate A Child, a new initiative from Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser aimed at triggering progress towards the goal of quality primary education for all the (...)
- Wednesday 2 March 2011
By Manyang Mayom
March 1, 2011 (RUMBEK) - The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the Catholic University of Sudan based in Wau is in need of lecturers.
Fr. Solomon Ewot, member of the Congregation of the Apostles (...)
- Monday 14 May 2012
May 13, 2012 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s Minister of Higher Education has closed all privately owned learning institutions with “immediate effect” leaving thousands of students without a place to study.
Higher Education Minister, Peter (...)
- Saturday 27 April 2013
April 24, 2013 (BOR) - Jonglei state’s governor Kuol Manyang Juuk, has set January of next year as a deadline for all ministers, MPs and top civil servants to bring their families back to South Sudan. Jonglei Governor, Kuol Mangang Juuk (...)
- 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 8 November 2012
November 7, 2012 (KAMPALA) – Ugandan police set free Monday all but one of the top leadership of the South Sudanese Students’ Union (SSSU) in Kampala, after finding no grounds to prosecute them for financial malpractice.
Bill Dhieu, the (...)
- Sunday 16 September 2012
September 15, 2012 (KAMPALA) – With South Sudan decreasing the funds it grants to students studying abroad every year since funding began in 2007 students are asking the government not to forget their needs as the consequences of the (...)
- 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 (...)
- Friday 26 March 2010
March 25, 2010 (RENK) — The southern Soudan state of Warrap has said it has already made it a policy to have the recruitment of teachers done at counties and payams levels.
"We consider it the best option because counties and payams (...)
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