Sudan

As part of a centrally organized system, Sudan's educational institutions are tightly controlled by the Khartoum regime, and heavily influenced by the politics of the day. The Ministry of Education has three branches. The General Directorate of Education Planning is responsible for the planning and implementing of public educational policy, which includes:

• Development and implementation of planning policies
• Statistical data collection, analyses, and publication
• Personnel training and coordination
• Educational research and surveys
• Problem resolution
• Budget planning
• Conference and seminar sponsorship/participation.

The General Directorate for Training and Education Qualifying is in charge of:

• Preparing training plans/programs
• Supervising the educational professional training process
• Designing curricula for training programs
• Qualifying trainers for conducting specialized training sessions.

And the National Committee for Education, Science, and Culture is responsible for:

• Cooperating with Arab and Islamic states in coordination of educational policy
• Organizing programs and national activities in education, science, culture
• Facilitating participation in international conferences.

The civil war has devoured the funds needed so desperately for education, not to mention the more basic needs of food and shelter for the displaced populace. The meager enrollment in the state schools testifies to the educational catastrophe that continues as many Sudanese youths reach maturity without having been educated in a formal, systematic manner throughout their formative years.

In an ideal Sudan, the Ministry of Education's policies would ensure the provision of adequate educational services as outlined by the General Directorate of Education Planning. According to the Ministry of Education, these policies are centered on maintaining the plans and programs of education according to a nationally envisioned, inclusive strategy, in line with the objectives and educational policies prescribed by the government. A national educational strategy was devised by the NIF-dominated Bashir-Turabi regime in June 1989. Their government formulated and implemented the New Education Policy of 1991, targeting the national curricula of public schools, the management of higher institutions of learning, and the Arabization-Islamization of all schools within Sudan—thereby tightening control over the process of religious and ideological homogenization.