The University of Khartoum has applied to United Nations to the declare their current building as a heritage site. The site is on river Nile in prime location in Khartoum and Khartoum North along the banks of The Nile and covers vast grounds. The Government is in talks with a Jordanian property developer to sell the site and move the university to Soba, a small town some distance from Khartoum. The students are fiercely opposed to this.
The university's history goes back to 1937 which was a watershed in education in Sudan. By 1936, schools of law, engineering, agriculture, and veterinary science had been approved and opened in a reformed Gordon Memorial College.
During the next 20 years, before independence, the reforms were implemented very slowly. Technical schools were integrated in 1945 and Kitchener School of Medicine in 1951 when it was renamed University of Khartoum.
Nagindas Khajuria
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