Category: Education

The Deputy Minister of General Education and Instruction has called on Invigilators and the security organs to curb irregularities in the upcoming Primary and Secondary school national examinations.

Martin Tako made the alert while announcing the exam schedules for the 2023 final exams in Juba yesterday.

The National Examinations Council on Wednesday declared Primary and Secondary Schools’ nationwide exams would commence on 20 November and 4 December 2023 respectively.

69,573 Primary Eight Candidates including 28,575 males and 30,908 females are scheduled to sit for the exams from the 20^th to 24 of November 2023.

The figure has shown an increase of 80,731 (14.4) pupils sitting in the final exams with the number of girls exceeding their male counterparts by over 2,000 pupils.

44, 999 Senior Four Candidates including, 28, 289 (males 63%) and 16, 685 (37%) females will sit for the nationwide exams starting from 4^th to 14 December 2024.

878 refugees are among the seating candidates, according to the council.

The candidates are registered from 500 schools across the country with an increase of over 9,412 including 4, 600 females – accounting for 21 percent compared to the 5,000-increment last year.

In his remarks, he said; “I want to draw special attention to the supervisors, invigilators, monitors, security, and the police that, the credibility and integrity of the exams are of greatest significance to the whole country.”

He also said the security organs should provide a secure and conducive environment for the conduct of the exams.

As South Sudan joins in marking the International Day of the Girl Child, some female pupils have called on parents to protect their daughters from child marriage and allow them to go to school.

The International Day of the Girl Child celebrates girls’ rights and potential every 11 October since 2012, when the UN declared it as an official observance.

Speaking on the Eye Radio’s Dawn Show today, Suzan Nyoka – who is one of their schooling in Juba, urged parents to stop denying girls access to education.

She adds that girls have the same rights as boys to go to school.

“Let parents abolish the issue of discrimination that boys are more important than girls, they send boys to school and they leave girls to stay home.

“I just want them to treat them equally, if a boy is to go to school a girl is also to go to school because all of them are future holders.”

Another school girl Yoma Kasara said;  “A girl is a child to be protected from early marriage, she is not at that stage of being a wife or taking care of a family .So, they have to protect our girls and this goes to our parents

Meanwhile, Maria Jamba emphasized the importance of gender equality to fight poverty in the country.

“Gender Equality is one of the effective things that when we practice it, we will fight the extreme poverty, we will have a healthy and wealthy country South Sudan.”

This year’s theme for the International Day of the Girl Child is “Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being”