University of Bakht al-Ruda
The University of Bakht al-Ruda is a Sudanese public university based in the city of Al-Dueim in White Nile State, on the western bank of the White Nile, about 190 kilometres south of Khartoum. It is one of the universities that arose on the legacy of an educational institution much older than itself, the Bakht al-Ruda Institute of Education.
The institute was founded in 1934 north of Al-Dueim, following recommendations by committees that reviewed the state of education in the early 1930s and called for its reform, and the school for training elementary school teachers was moved to it from Khartoum to a rural environment close to the life of the majority of the population. From its establishment, the institute undertook two intertwined tasks: preparing teachers and training them while in service, and setting general education curricula and developing them, so it would trial the new curriculum on a small scale and follow up its implementation through technical inspection and educational research before generalising it to schools. Its work later extended from teachers of the primary stage to teachers of the intermediate stage and its curricula, and it continued to perform this role until the mid-1990s, and generations of pioneers of education, thought and literature in Sudan passed through it, foremost among them Professor Abdullah Al-Tayeb.
In 1997, the University of Bakht al-Ruda was established in its current university form on the institute's facilities and site, so its scope expanded from education alone to multiple fields. The university today includes faculties in medicine and health sciences, science, economics and administrative sciences, arts, law, agriculture and natural resources, and community development, in addition to faculties of education in Bakht al-Ruda, Naima and Mabrouka, and it awards bachelor's degrees and postgraduate degrees. In this way, the university combines the usual function of higher education with a special spatial memory: it is the heir to the institution that shaped Sudan's school curricula for more than six decades.
(Sources: Wikipedia — entries "Al-Dueim" and "List of universities in Sudan"; study "The Role of Bakht al-Ruda in Developing General Education Curricula and Their Quality", Journal of Educational Studies, National Centre for Curricula and Educational Research, 2017; Sudan Educational Guide)
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