In life Mary MacKillop was an educational pioneer, establishing schools for the poor in nineteenth-century rural Australia. So it is fitting that the first high-school students are about to start at a college for girls in South Sudan named after MacKillop, who was canonised in 2010.Despite the violence in this fledgling country, 70 students are due to begin classes next month at the school in Aweil, which opened to primary pupils in 2011. The building has been funded by the Sydney-based charity South Sudan Educates Girls (SSEG), set up and run by Sudanese people living in Australia. Former refugee Johnson Ngor, vice president of the charity, said the conflict in South Sudan was occurring a long way from Aweil. “Currently only 1 per cent of girls over the age of 12 are able to attend