Ninteen students from the south protested against their exammination results in Bakht Al-ruda

By: Izzadin Abdul Rasoul


Nineteen first year students from South Sudan in the
College of Economics at Bakht Al-Ruda University
protested against their examination results. They
accused the college of bias against Southern Sudan
students in the marking of examinations papers.
Emma Edward, a first year student at Bakht Al-Ruda
University's College of Economics yesterday told
Citizen that the 19 students from South Sudan who were
given fail grades in their examination results have
formed a committee to meet the college dean Idriss
Mohamed Ahmed. Said she, "We asked the dean of the
college through or committee for revision of our
examination papers. His reply was that he would not
order a revision because the results reflected the
levels Southern students, whether they are in the
South or in the North. He then added, according to
Emma, "If they want to do anything, you can do it."
Emma said that after hearing this from the dean
they wrote letters of withdrawal from the college but
the dean refused to accept them. The students then
presented their letters of withdrawal to Vice
Chancellor Anas Abdulhafeez who also rejected them.
The next step taken by the committee was to contact
the South Sudan Students Union and then they went to
meet the Federal Minister of High Education. The
minister requested their Sudan basic school
certificates so that he could arrange their enrollment
in other universities.
Emma said that most of the Students who failed
the examinations were born in North Sudan and had no
difficulty with the Arabic language. She recalled,
"One of the college's lecturers, named Nada Gism Al
Said, once asked, "What brought you Southerners to
this University? Bakht Al Ruda is an Islamic
University."
Meanwhile, Suzan Fredensio Gore, who graduated
from Bakht Al Ruda University last year, told Citizen
that such things had never happened to Southern during
her time in the university. "There were the normal
slight students' problems. Since I entered the
university only one from South Sudan was expelled; his
name was William Tombe. And the problem of Tombe was
one of personal circumstances that did not allow him
to sit for examinations," she added.


Source: The Citizen, Khartoum 03/09/2006