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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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- Thursday 20 October 2011
By Machien J. Luoi
October 18, 2011 — Recently the Minister of Higher Education in the Republic of South Sudan, Dr. Adwok Nyaba, announced the suspension of private universities, citing lack of infrastructure, standardised curriculums (...)
- Monday 19 March 2012
March 18, 2012 (BOR) - At the opening of a church, school and a clinic built by a local businessman on Sunday the bishop of Bor diocese said development programs in villages of South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei State shows the potential (...)
- Friday 14 July 2006
By Omer M Shurkian*
July 10, 2006 — It may be argued that a language is a natural instinct whereby human beings could express their desires, demand their basic rights, learn new skills and acquire lifelong experiences. Nonetheless, (...)
- 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 (...)
- Friday 1 February 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
January 31, 2013 (KAMPALA) - South Sudanese were among top performers in the 2012 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results released by Uganda’s ministry of education and sports last week. UNEB Chairman, Fagil (...)
- 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 (...)
- 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 (...)
- Thursday 3 January 2013
January 2, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese 1st Vice President Ali Osman Taha has defended the recent crackdown on independent pro-democracy centers and suggested they are undercover bodies whose goal is to undermine the regime. Sudanese (...)
- 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 (...)
- Wednesday 12 October 2011
October 11, 2011 (KAMPALA) – South Sudanese students in India have been unable to renew their passports since the country became independent leaving many stranded, students say.
In a letter sent to Sudan Tribune on Monday, the students (...)
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