Sudan’s Al-Bashir vows to improve education staff living conditions

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir yesterday pledged to improve the living conditions of university professors after a large number of academic staff were found to have left the country.

Speaking at the Silver Jubilee Ceremony for the country’s National Students Welfare Fund, Al-Bashir said that, following several discussions with many university lecturers and cadres in Sudan, he discovered that the majority leave in search of better living conditions.

He stressed that the government will offer housing facilities to university academic staff as well as providing them with soft bank loans, which would further help them buy their own residences.

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The president also pledged to implement the e-learning system in various educational stages.

Al-Bashir hailed the National Students Welfare Fund’s efforts in providing housing facilities for university students over the past 25 years, stressing that “the fund has been one of the main reasons for the increase in the number of student admissions in Sudan’s universities.”

According to the state’s Organisation of Sudanese Expatriates Affairs, since 2015, some 50,000 academic professors, doctors, pharmacists and engineers have left Sudan, seeking better living conditions.