South Sudan Pays Khartoum 885,000 USD For Examination Fees
by Mahou Chadhal Mahou
JUBA – The Ministry of General Education and Instructions has already paid the examination fees of USD 885.6 thousand to the Ministry of Education in Khartoum in order to facilitate Sudan School Certificate examinations in the Republic of South Sudan this year.This was revealed yesterday by the Minister of General Education and Instructions, Joseph Ukel Abango in an interview conducted by the Citizen reporter.
He added that the Ministry had signed Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education in Khartoum for three years and the amount has been contributed by the candidates.Ukel remarked, “The purpose of paying such amount to them is to facilitate the examinations process like transportation of papers to the States, collecting them back, marking, and printing results, payment of invigilators.”In the same development, the Secretary General for Secondary Examination in the Ministry, Mr. Rajab Sedaria Abdalla explained the breakdown of the examination fees that candidates contributed.
He added that government schools candidates paid 35SSP each, the private school candidates paid 85SSP , the private candidates have also paid 85 SSP as well as teachers’ trade union did the same.Abdalla also added “our candidates in the Republic of South Sudan who are going to sit for Sudan School Certificate are around 17,000 students”Ukel admitted that the Minister of Higher Education Science, Research and Technology was right to refuse those students who illegally sat for Southern Sudan Examination by then to be admitted in Public Universities because those examinations were not registered and recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education.“But we are going to discuss on how to help those students who sat that examine with the Minister” he asserted.
Ukel also explained the review of the curriculum whereby the Ministry has so far passed four levels which are ready for printing and the other levels would be reviewed soon.He said that the examination would kick- off on the 19th March 2012.He urged the candidates to study hard for the forthcoming examine because the Ministry has already distributed timetable to all schools. —
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