By By Oketayot Santo
The Ministry of General Education and Instruction said Monday that the results for certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) examination results will be released in three weeks as marking of the scripts started.
Nearly 45,000 students across the country completed the Certificate of Secondary Education Examination in December last year and since then the exam scripts have not been marked.
Addressing a media briefing in Juba, the Deputy Minister of General Education and Instruction Martin Tako Mayi admitted that the delay in the marking of the scripts which he blamed it on lack of funds to facilitate the process.
“The marking of secondary school certificate which has delayed the reason for delay is obvious that we did not receive the necessary funding for marking the examination, we were ready and we invited the teachers from ten states and three Administrative areas they were here for the last two months but we could not proceed with the marking because of lack of funding” Tako said.
“We have received part of the funding for marking the examination we are grateful to President of the Republic, the Vice President for Service Cluster and minister of finance for trying their level best to see to it that the examination papers are marked. It is true that lack of marking the examination as well as releasing the results is a challenge and it has interfered with our academic year” he stressed.
He assured that the marking of the examination scripts will be completed and results released within three weeks.
The Deputy Minister also noted that the first term holidays for the learners will only be one week as there will be a lot of activities that will be coming in due course of the year including the elections.
“We will do our best to mark the examination within a limit of three weeks, within three weeks we will produce the results because we have been alert an ready just waiting for the funding and we will also from here declare to all the schools in the republic of South Sudan that the holidays for first term will only be a week so that the schools can catch up with learning, we have a lot of programs ahead of us which may interfere with our normal academic functions this year, we also have the elections in December so we have a crass program so that the syllabus can be finished within the academic year” Tako said.
He revealed that they have arrested a school administrator in Juba for continues teaching after the government announced closure of schools due to the heatwaves.
“I want to inform the public, the parents that they should take proper care of their children when we announced that we are closing schools for a particular issue which is dangerous for the children they should adhere to this we arrested a headmaster of a school, we could have closed the school but for the sake of our children learning in that school we arrested the administration for failing to adhere to closing of the school they continued which could have endangered lives of the children learning” Tako said.
