Education Ministry In GOSS Appeals To Sudanese Scholars To Return To South

The GOSS ministry of higher education is appealing to southern Sudanese scholars to return home and help in boosting higher learning institutions in the region.

GOSS minister of higher education, science and technology, Joseph Ukel was addressing the press in Juba on Tuesday.

[Joseph Ukel]: “We are appealing to some of our qualified lecturers who are outside teaching in various universities in Diaspora. If they can be convinced or influenced to at least work as part-timers, this can be one of the solutions. We also appeal to our friends and partners if we can also get some lecturers from outside south Sudan. Their problem was that, what do we give them in form of salaries, and that became our problem. Even within the south here we have a lot of qualified lecturers who left the job to join other departments where they can find green pasture.”

Honorable Joseph Ukel added that the new state shall adopt English as the main medium of communication while Arabic shall be taught as a subject in all learning institutions.

Southern Sudan is developing its own curriculum and trying to support over eight universities being relocated to the south from the north.