More than 900 students, who could not sit for secondary leaving examinations on Monday in Juba’s UN Protection of Civilian sites (PoCs), were able to receive the exams outside the UN compound on Wednesday.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Thursday, the Northern Liech Minister of Information, Lam Tungwar said the students who left the camp were allowed to sit for the exams.
“Today, I managed to assess a number of 910 students who came outside the PoCs and sat for their examination at Buluk Primary School,” he said.
Tungwar further said the students who did not sit Monday and Tuesday examinations will be allowed to sit those exams. However, he did not mention when.
The state official added that this year’s exams could not take place at the PoCs because the government was trying to secure the centres from cheating.
A total of 967 students in the Juba PoCs were registered for the final exams this year.
On Tuesday, about 300 students decided to come out of the UN camp voluntarily in order to take their exams outside the PoCs after the National Ministry of Education refused to use previous examination centres in the UN camp this year.
Photo: Students from Juba PoCs, who couldn’t sit for their examinations on Monday, finally take first examination paper in Juba on Thursday, March 9/ 2017/Facebook