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Apr 24, 2025

61% of eligible DSE candidates get into Hong Kong public universities, down from 70%

Competition for places greater as axing of liberal studies core subject allowed more students to meet minimum entrance criteria

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Apr 23, 2025

Sweden government proposes financial compensation to schools due to cancelled digital national exams

The digital national exams will be replaced with paper exams this spring after serious shortcomings were discovered in the Swedish National Agency for Education's new digital exam platform.

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Apr 22, 2025

HSC exam results to be announced in May

Results of the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) will be declared by the second week of May, BSE president Srikant Tarai announced on Monday.

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Apr 21, 2025

Oral exam in English on the cards for Leaving Cert students

Discussions in the exam will focus on what students study and learn in class, such as plays, novels and poems.

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Apr 18, 2025

France, Malaysia and Wales detail India collaboration plans

At The PIE Live India 2025, attendees learned that several emerging study destinations are already expanding into India.

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Apr 17, 2025

Swedish National Agency for Education: Digital national exams cancelled

The Swedish National Agency for Education is canceling the digital national exams this spring, the agency wrote in a press release. The reason is that several serious shortcomings have been discovered, including students' personal data being leaked to teachers who should not have access to it.

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Apr 16, 2025

Hong Kong schools on ‘frontline’ of preventing ‘soft resistance,’ education minister says

Hong Kong’s education minister has said that schools are on the “frontline” of preventing the spread of “soft resistance,” as students may develop “extreme, biased” values due to online rumours.

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Apr 16, 2025

172% surge of dependant enrolments into Hong Kong universities in past 2 years

Influx of children of non-local professionals admitted by the eight public universities has prompted angry backlash from local parents

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Apr 15, 2025

Leaving Cert results will fall this year as pandemic grade inflation begins to be phased out

Leaving Cert results will fall this year as pandemic grade inflation begins to be phased out.

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Apr 14, 2025

Number of Leaving and Junior Cert students caught cheating doubles in a year

The number of students caught cheating in their Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams has more than doubled in the space of a year. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said 86 results had been withheld for last year’s Leaving Cert compared to 39 in 2023.

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