Access to Education in Sudan
The education system in Sudan currently stands in a perilous state.
Centralisation by colonial and subsequent governments, decades of civil war and chronic underinvestment have taken their toll on educational
establishments and pupils alike, reducing the accessibility, quality and Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) presents a window of opportunity to egalitarianism of schools and universities. Despite this inauspicious legacy, the onset of relative stability across large parts of the country in the wake of the
begin to reverse this trend. In order to improve the education system in terms
of its infrastructure, reach and academic standards, the Government of Sudan
must learn to grapple with and resolve fundamental structural, financial, linguistic and cultural obstacles.
This paper is based on a series of three discussions which took place at a Concordis consultation held in London in July 2006, entitled Access to Education in Sudan.