South Sudan government should open more public universities and colleges for youths to get prepare for their bright future.

By Jongkuch Jo Jongkuch, Bor, South Sudan

South Sudan government should open more free public Universities, colleges, Secondary and primary schools for the future generation and the current youths to get prepare for well-paid job and its can also help in reduce conflict in the country when many youths are schooling.

It’s good that our government should open more public Universities and colleges and recover educational system; it helps make us smarter; it helps to reduce the type of ignorance that leads to various kinds of hostilities or conflicts; it gives early structure to the lives of our children; it helps prepare our children for the future and getting a better a job. 

If I could ask what is the important of education? Many of you shall present dozen different answers. 

For each person, the most important reason for education would arguably be the complex product of experience, socioeconomic, personality, personal history, etc.

For the unemployed underachieving college graduate, the reason of preparation for future employment might be viewed with a more cynical eye than the college graduate in a high-managerial position; whatever the view, the point is that there is a multitude of possible answers.

The perhaps liberal bias is somewhat apparent in my listing, but the point I’m trying to make is that perhaps the answer isn’t as simple.

Regardless of the numerous possible reasons for schooling, there is one that has seemed to emerge as the fact to motive.

It has also become almost a national anthem for the poor educational system in this country of the South Sudan. 

How many times have we heard “if you want a good paid job, you have to go to college”? Or how about the almost socially acceptable degradation of those who have ended up at the bottom of the economic ladder? It’s the bogeyman of the middle-class citizens that if you don’t go to school or get a college degree you’ll end up taking care for cows at the cattle camps, that is why I’m try to encourage my government to established more free public universities and colleges. 

The attachment of occupation to a chance personal worth is seen there waiting under a guise of caution, but that’s for another post.

But for my country South Sudan either you passe through academic procedure or you never attend school the job is granted for you by your dad, uncle and whosoever is rally behind you in order for you to prosper, for that case its will never take south Sudan anywhere unless the government have to set educational system, a system that will allow everybody to entering to school and finish on time, a system that is not corrupted when there are a chances of scholarship selection should be done smartly.

For this topic I will admitted that there is no way covered adequately by my post; there’s just too much to cover here and too many different views and ideas that can be crammed into one post the issue is complex and without any single or right solution. 

South Sudan government can manage to establish more public universities and I know that there are certain unfortunate realities and economic considerations that complicate the matter even further. 

What I can and do want to say though is that I think it’s wrong that education seems to have become the measurement tool by which a person’s value as a citizen and even person is assessed. 

I think it’s the right say that many students drop out from the school because of school fees that cannot allow them to finishing school or attending university with some kind of personal failure or flaw. 

I think it’s wrong that government use low-skill workers, low-pay jobs;  there must be some kind of cautionary tale for what will happen if you don’t go to school, or even if you don’t attend the most “prestigious” school, there will be more question will be ask if you don’t attend school while there are free public universities.

I think it’s wrong that the trades have acquired some kind of implicit inferiority compared to South Sudan educational system.

And I think it’s wrong that south Sudan government created an environment in which our children are competing against each other instead of working with each other.

 

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Some African states oppose a return by South Sudan rebel Machar - U.N.

April 28, 2017 (Jonglei Times)-East African states and South Africa believe that allowing South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to the war-torn country would not "necessarily be positive at this stage," said United Nations envoy David Shearer on Wednesday.

Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in August after fierce fighting in South Sudan, is being held in South Africa to prevent him from stirring up trouble, diplomatic and political sources told Reuters in December.

Shearer, who heads a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, confirmed that was the case.

"The feeling very much within the region is that his role, in terms of bringing him back, wouldn't necessarily be positive at this stage, so that's the decision of regional governments and South Africa," Shearer told reporters in New York.

South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir fired Machar as his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often following ethnic lines.

Shearer said Festus Mogae, the former Botswana president who heads the international mediation and monitoring body JMEC in South Sudan, and U.N. envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, had both visited Machar.

"What's the most important thing -- and I have made this point to everybody including President Kiir -- is that the constituency he represents must be part of any peace process and any process that moves forward," Shearer said.

The United Nations has warned of a possible genocide as millions have fled their homes, the oil-producing economy is in a tail-spin, crop harvests are devastated because of the worst drought in years and millions face famine.

The United States slammed Kiir on Tuesday for the African state's "man-made" famine and ongoing conflict, urging him to fulfill a month-old pledge of a unilateral truce by ordering his troops back to their barracks.
U.N. sanctions monitors reported to the Security Council last month that South Sudan's government is mainly to blame for famine in parts of the country, yet Kiir is still boosting his forces using millions of dollars from oil sales.

Source: Reuters

 

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