SUDAN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT ONCE CIVIL WAR ENDS

MORE than five months of fighting between the government and rebel forces in South Sudan has further devastated the country's already neglected higher education system.Two of South Sudan’s five public universities fell in the path of some of the war’s heaviest clashes. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology, in Bor, and Upper Nile University (UNU) in Malakal city, Upper Nile state, have not reopened after the Christmas holiday. It is not known when – or if – classes will start again. The remaining three (the University of Juba; the ...


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