2016 NATIONAL EDUCATION STATISTICS FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN FEBRUARY 2017 www.goss.org © Ministry of General Education & Instruction 2017 Photo Courtesy of UNICEF This publication may be used as a part or as a whole, provided that the MoGEI is acknowledged as the source of information. The map used in this document is not the official maps of the Republic of South Sudan and are for illustrative purposes only. This publication has been produced with financial assistance from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and technical assistance from Altai Consulting. Soft copies of the complete National and State Education Statistic Booklets, along with the EMIS baseline list of schools and related documents, can be accessed and downloaded at: www.southsudanemis.org. For inquiries or requests, please use the following contact information: George Mogga / Director of Planning and Budgeting / MoGEI [email protected] Giir Mabior Cyerdit / EMIS Manager / MoGEI [email protected] Data & Statistics Unit / MoGEI [email protected] Nor Shirin Md. Mokhtar / Chief of Education / UNICEF [email protected] Akshay Sinha / Education Officer / UNICEF [email protected] Daniel Skillings / Project Director / Altai Consulting [email protected] Philibert de Mercey / Senior Methodologist / Altai Consulting [email protected] FOREWORD On behalf of the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI), I am delighted to present The National Education Statistics Booklet, 2016, of the Republic of South Sudan (RSS). It is the 9th in a series of publications initiated in 2006, with only one interruption in 2014, a significant achievement for a new nation like South Sudan. The purpose of the booklet is to provide a detailed compilation of statistical information covering key indicators of South Sudan’s education sector, from ECDE to Higher Education. It reports the results of the data gathered from the Annual Education Census (AEC) carried out by the Data and Statistics Unit (DSU) of the Directorate of Planning and Budgeting of the MoGEI, which operates the Education Management Information System (EMIS), in collaboration with State Ministries of Education (SMoE). In order to plan and manage our education system effectively, South Sudan needs reliable and credible data. We need information about how the system is developing and changing over time, how learning outcomes and gender disparities vary across the country and how South Sudan compares vis-à-vis its neighbours or countries facing similar socio-economic situations. The General Education Act, 2012, makes specific provisions in this regard: Section 8 (1): The National Ministry of General Education shall exercise and carry out the following roles and functions: (O) Conduct educational research to determine the quality of education system in South Sudan and use the results of such research findings for planning purposes. EMIS provides systematic and quality knowledge to education stakeholders about the status of the education system as a whole and the learning outcomes in the country and, in so doing, assists the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) to identify education needs and priorities, and to design appropriate interventions. EMIS also assists the Ministry and other relevant agencies by providing critical information to monitor our performance against the key indicators of the Education for All (EFA) and the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Enrolment and intake rates, student-teacher ratios, gender parity, and access to learning materials, among other data, can help the government and development agencies to identify where to most effectively allocate limited resources in the face of competing priorities. This publication would not have been possible without the cooperation and support from the SMoE, County and Payam Education Offices, and all the schools, centres, institutions, colleges, and universities across the RSS. I want to seize this opportunity to commend the dedication, hard work and professionalism of the EMIS team and State Focal Points, County Education Directors, Payam Supervisors, and Head Teachers, which were crucial in increasing the education census coverage and in assuring the quality of the information gathered. We also thank our partners, especially the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNICEF and Altai Consulting for their continuous support in improving South Sudan’s EMIS. Sincerely, Deng Deng Hoc Yai Minister of General Education and Instruction TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD .................................................................................................................................................................. 1 ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 What is EMIS ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Relevance ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 2016 Annual Education Census ............................................................................................................................... 5 1.1. About the MoGEI ........................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2. History of EMIS ............................................................................................................................................. 7 1.3. EMIS Process................................................................................................................................................. 8 1.4. Limitations of the National Education Statistics Booklet ..................................................................................... 9 1.5. How to Read the Data in this National Education Statistics Booklet ................................................................... 10 1.6. About the 2016 State Booklets ...................................................................................................................... 11 2. DEFINITIONS ...................................................................................................................................................... 12 2.1. Indicator Used to Measure Coverage ............................................................................................................. 12 2.2. Indicators Used to Measure Access ................................................................................................................ 12 2.3. Indicators Used to Measure Student Flow....................................................................................................... 13 2.4. Indicator Used to Measure Gender Parity ....................................................................................................... 14 2.5. Indicators Used to Measure Resource ............................................................................................................ 14 3. 2016 DATA .......................................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1. Schools ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.1. Number and % of schools per school type and ownership type, 2016 ....................................................... 15 3.1.2. Number and % of AES schools by programme and ownership type, 2016 ................................................. 16 3.1.3. Number and % of Primary and Secondary schools by state and ownership, 2016 ...................................... 17 3.2. Access ........................................................................................................................................................ 18 3.2.1. Number and % of students per school type and gender, 2016 ................................................................. 18 3.2.2. Number and % of students by gender and state, 2016 ............................................................................ 19 3.2.3. Enrolment rates for Primary and Secondary school, 2015 and 2016 .......................................................... 20 3.2.4. Enrolment rates for Primary schools by former state, 2016 ...................................................................... 20 3.2.5. Enrolment rates for Secondary schools by former state, 2016 .................................................................. 20 3.3. Student Flow ............................................................................................................................................... 21 3.3.1. Number of repeaters and repetition rate by class and gender, 2015 ......................................................... 21 3.3.2. Number and dropout rate per class and gender, 2015 ............................................................................. 22 3.3.3. Number and dropout rate by state and gender, 2015 .............................................................................. 23