SOUTH SUDAN VICE CHANCELLOR STRUGGLES TO OPEN NEW UNIVERSITY
March 1st, 2013
Dr John Apuru Akec wants to use institutions of higher education to develop South Sudan, the world’s newest country, which became independent in July 2011. It’s a noble and sensible goal. But first of all, he will have to help make the nation’s higher education system work. In 2010 Akec, now 54, was appointed vice chancellor of the brand new University of Northern Bahr el Ghazal (UNBEG). Less than a year later, and following a decades-long war, South Sudan officially achieved independence from Sudan, and his university found itself in the north-west of ...
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