South Sudan will abolish foreign curricula in its schools, replacing them with its own national curriculum.
The country’s minister for General Education and Instruction Deng Deng Hoc said the new curriculu would be well researched and focused on “the situation in the country”.
“It is only the national curriculum of South Sudan that is supposed to be taught in the whole country. All other foreign curricula will need to be phased out,” Deng said.
The world’s youngest nation has been using Kenyan, Ugandan, Sudanese and Ethiopian curricula in its schools.
Deng however said international schools would be exempted from this change.
Education is South Sudan has been hampered by two-years of conflict that caused major damages to educational institutions and the exodus of teachers and students.
Calm is however returning into the country after last month’s return of Riek Machar to the capital to take up the post of First Vice President in a transitional unity government.
