![WBGS Director General of Education, Mr. Abdullahi Ali Speaking to Gurtong in his Office [©Gurtong]](https://www.oyetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/africa_WBGS_Director_General__of_Education_PS.jpg "WBGS Director General of Education, Mr. Abdullahi Ali Speaking to Gurtong in his Office [©Gurtong]")
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![WBGS Director General of Education, Mr. Abdullahi Ali Speaking to Gurtong in his Office [©Gurtong]](https://www.oyetimes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/africa_WBGS_Director_General__of_Education_PS.jpg "WBGS Secondary School Candidates Set For National Exams")
Out of 1,938 candidates, 579 students are female.
“17 secondary schools and 2 teacher unions are officially set for the first ever South Sudan national secondary examination across the 9 registered centres in the State,” Ali mentioned.
The Director also pointed out that only Comboni private secondary school in Raga County isn’t set for this examination due to lack of qualified teachers to meet the standards.
“Although South Sudan recently became an independence nation from the Republic of Sudan with English chosen as the country’s official language, the South Sudan Secondary National Leaving Examination are still set in old Sudan learning curriculum and syllabus due to the fact that Arabic is still being used as a medium of teaching in WBGS,” said Ali.
Ali urged the students who will pass in their current exams to first go for an intensive English course before joining Universities in order to avoid current stalemate between the Arabic and English students.
“Since the National Ministry of Higher Education is aware of the current effect in the change of medium of teaching at the Universities, the Ministry has been strongly urged to take immediate actions to address next year’s candidates who will be sitting for their national examinations,” the Director advised.
“The ministry of education should focus more on training English teachers to boost the current languages used for learning and to make sure that next year’s exams will only be set in English,” he said.
“I also call upon the ministry to speed up on building more schools in the States in order to reduce overcrowding in classrooms due to the influx of returnees from Sudan,” he continued.
The Director called on the parents to give their children enough time to study so as to pass their exams.
He also urged the candidates to be patience in the meantime as the State administration sends selected teachers to Khartoum for examination materials but warned them not to cheat during the examinations.
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