Education Conference In Juba
January 28, 2010, 11:43 pm - by Dominik
 - Awak Attends Education Conference.
- There is a need for building of schools.
- 2015 goal to provide primary education to all boys and girls.
On arrival to Juba the headquarters of the Southern Sudanese Government, Awak met with Government officials to explain to them our goals of building a school. Awak was fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time and was invite to an education conference called "Schools Rehabilitation".
The conference was held at the Juba Bridge Hotel between the 24th to 26th of January 2010 by the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST). The conference was attended by other Organisations who have vested interest in alleviating poverty by achieving basic education. These include International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF), Academy for Education Development (AED), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Save the Children UK (STCUK).
  
The main outcome of the conference was to ensure that all individuals have access to primary school education regardless of age, special needs and gender. This outcome reflects the Governments commitment in achieving their Millennium Development Goals of ensuring that by 2015 all boys and girls will be able to complete a full course of primary school, as well as eliminating all gender disparities in primary and secondary school. To this end the ministry is focusing on developing the sector of basic education through 1) constructing classrooms and 2) building the capacity of teachers.
Other priorities that need to be addressed are community awareness in the importance of girls getting an education and the ability to provide adult education to those who have not had the opportunity to go to school because of the civil war.
  
The strategy that MoEST has chosen to help achieve these goals, as well as eliminate illiteracy, is to setup two education systems. These being a formal education ladder system and an alternative education system. The formal ladder system will be based on the 8-4-4 system, which means that there would be eight years of primary school, four years of secondary school and four years of higher education. The alternative education system compresses eight years of formal (primary) education into four years and offers flexible entry and exit points. This system will mainly focus on providing education to older youths and adults.
  
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