Pupils in SPLM-IO areas express excitement over start of exams
Pupils who missed out on last week s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in different states of South Sudan due to insecurity have expressed joy as they sat the exams this week.
On February 4, the Minister of General Education and Instruction Awut Deng Acuil announced that the South Sudan National Examinations Council had been alerted of possible examination security threats in most of the SPLM-IO bases in parts of the Jonglei and Upper Nile State.
Following the statement from the minister, education stakeholders across the country expressed concerns over the decision made by the Ministry of General Education and Instruction. A week later, the ministry decided to fix new dates for the conduct of primary eight examinations for the pupils that had missed out on the initial exams.