ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the development of the traditional education, essentially Islamic in the character, in the northern Sudan and the interaction of the traditional and Western education which in turn led to the emergence of a national system of the education. It concerns the main trends and changes in the educational system and not with a detailed examination of its content. The minor branches, traditional Islamic and Christian missionary education, though diametrically opposed in their objectives, were both supervised by the government which encouraged avenues of cultural contact with the major stream. The concept of public education initiated by the condominum government and geared towards liberal education and producing the qualified government personnel and professionals was radically reformed and broadened by the may revolutionary government to cater for the needs of a modern society, particularly in the science and technology.
