Learning has resumed in Kuajok National Secondary School in Warrap State after a strike over changes in the national education curriculum.

Nearly 300 students demonstrated on Monday, demanding to sit for their secondary school exams in Senior Three instead of Senior Four.

Senior Three was the final year in Sudanese high school. But with the introduction of South Sudan 8-4-4 education system in 2011, some students find it hard to accept the fact that they’ve to spend four years in high school.

“The state minister has clearly stated to them that we are not going to change our system; this is our country system. So, whoever wants to go and sit Khartoum system, he or she has to go to that school,” said Mayen Mayen, principle of the school.

“All students have reported back; they are in classes now.”

South Sudan now has its own education curriculum and is gradually phasing out the Sudanese syllabus.

On Monday, Education Minister Victor Atem Atem told Eye Radio that the ringleaders of the strike are soldiers.

“Behind them are some soldiers in this school who are in a hurry ….to complete and go back to barracks,” Mr Atem said.

More than 1,000 students in lower classes were forced to stay at home due to the strike.