South Sudan to halt financial support students studying abroad
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By Philip Thon Aleu
March 21, 2011 (KAMPALA) – The government of southern Sudan (GOSS)
will reduce financial support to students studying in neighboring east
African countries in order to inject more money to home based
universities, an official told Sudan Tribune.
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Lual Akol Nhial, GOSS Liaison Educational Attaché to Uganda speaking
in Kampala. (ST)
Lual Akol Nhial, GOSS Liaison Educational Attaché to Uganda, notes
that continuing students will not be affected. "Those who are joining
their academic studies from [the academic year] 2010 onward, should be
joining our national universities in Southern Sudan,” said Akol.
"On those [students] who are within the support of the government…
will be going [on with their studies] until they finished. The support
will be put back to home universities," he added.
Thousands of former student refugees from South Sudan are continuing
their studies in East Africa despite return of peace six years ago.
The Juba government decided to extend annual financial support to
students in neighboring countries in 2006.
That money did not cover academic year tuition fees but was a
significant assistance given high tuition fees charge for foreign
students by Ugandan universities.
South Sudanese voted to succeed from the north in January referendum
that resulted from the 2005 peace accord which ended two decades
north-south civil war. Facing financial difficulties, most
universities in South Sudan, including Juba University, have delayed
2011 academic programs till May.
Reducing financial support to students is aimed at paying much more
attention to education universities in South Sudan.
(ST)
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