Geography, Gender and Money Profits in Sudanese General Private Education: The Example of Khartoum State

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to investigate general private education in Sudan with the main focus on the
geography, gender and money profits in Khartoum state based on fieldwork and data published by Administration of Non
Governmental Education of Khartoum state in 2011. Results depict that private education contribute by 41.7% in the total
number of schools in the state. In number of schools in basic education, private schools hold 35.7% while in secondary
education it holds 58.1%. There are statistical significant difference into distribution of private secondary schools by locality and
there is less dispersion into secondary schools compared to basic schools. There is no compliance into school numbering by
locality in private basic and secondary education. the calculated value of chi-square for private secondary schools is less than
the private basic schools indicating to less dispersion into secondary schools compared to basic schools. Rank Spearman's
correlation value of – 0.4 and Kendal's of – 0.5 depict to distribution of number of private basic schools as not to be necessarily
correlated with number of private secondary schools. From the total number of basic private students males constitute 53.7%
and females 46.3% which gives 7.4% excess males. In gender concerns, there is 7.4% excess males. There is significant
statistical difference between numbers of males and females in private basic education while there is no statistical significant
difference between both sex in private secondary education. There appears to be close correspondence between number of
schools and number of students in basic private education contrary to private secondary education. Private education employs
14.33% of teachers involved in basic education and 13.92% of teachers involved in secondary education. Male teachers
dominate private secondary education and almost equal to female teachers in basic private education. The total net income of
private education is estimated as 39.4% of the total annual income. The author suggests some strategies to recruit government
free education to decelerate private schooling to exclude poor Sudanese to save payment on private education to meet the
increasing basic life demands in situation of increasing inflation.