Education System In Sudan To Be Revitalized

10th March 2011 – (Wau) –The governments of southern Sudan, the Egyptian, and the Zimbabwean government have expressed interest in revitalizing the education system in south Sudan.

The Egyptian government pledged to build the capacity of southern Sudanese teachers and begun work to rebuild technical schools across the region.

Speaking to SRS on Thursday, the GOSS minister of Education, Doctor Michael Milly Hussein said that southern Sudanese have been deprived of technical skills because of the war.

[Micheal Milly]: “We are now going to renovate and reconstruct our technical schools. The Sudan government for the last thirty years had decided to phase out technical schools, and that is why we are now paying a very high price. We don’t have skill laborers. You can see how the market has been dominated by our brothers from the neighboring countries. These people graduated from these technical schools. So the Egyptians have already started constructing three schools for us; one in Juba, Wau, and in Nyirol county. These are complex schools; they have both academic and technical schools. As a new nation, we are now talking of seriously revitalizing our technical schools.”

Doctor Michael Milly added that the government of Zimbabwe will offer teachers to south Sudan since it is an Anglophone country as south Sudan heads towards adopting English as the main medium of communication