Students’ deans of both government and private universities have agreed to rewrite electoral regulations and constitutions in preparation for the upcoming students’ union elections. However, this move comes within the framework of forming new student unions and students’ conduct and accountability regulations, while taking preventive measures to reduce students’ violence as well as managing the political file.
Speaking at a consultative meeting of students’ deans, vice chancellor of Al-Neelain University, Dr. Muhammad al-Amin, said he put joint strategic plans to come up with a set of precautionary measures, pointing out that the Deanship of Student Affairs , faces many problems, including providing an appropriate university environment for students.
In a related development , the Dean of Student Affairs at Al-Neelain University, Dr. Majdi Ezza El-Din, affirmed that students practice their activities naturally, and that the university supports all rational political practice of extra-curricular activities.
However, a number of students’ deans drawn from various Sudanese universities ,recommended the necessity of forming a joint body representing the high educational institutions.
It is noteworthy that Sudanese universities are still facing various problems, including the University of the Noble Qur’an and Islamic Sciences, which announced last week suspension of study, according to its Vice Chancellor , Professor Omar Al-Sayed Wadbadr.
Meanwhile, students of Al-Daein University in East Darfur State, protested at the end of last December due to the deterioration of services in the student hostels . on the other hand, hundreds of students from Al-Fashir University took to the street early December, in an unprecedented demonstrations against scarcity of bread and apparent deterioration in services of student hostels, as well as demanding dismissal of National Student Welfare Fund director.
The Deanship of Student Affairs at the Islamic University of Omdurman, suspended early December, the political activities of all entities at the university .
Moreover, at the end of last November, more than 200 students from Darfur ,staged a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Higher Education in Khartoum, protesting against what they described as a racist practice by University of Dongola in northern Sudan.
In the same month, students of the University of Nyala organized a protest in front of the headquarters of the government of South Darfur State, in protest against the transportation crisis that university students have suffered since the resumption of studies.