June 29, 2021
Minister Tiago Brandão Rodrigues understands that schools are “mature enough to understand how they want to assess their students”. The governor indicated the return of classroom teaching at a school in Paços de Ferreira.
June 29, 2021
Teenage COVID-19 patients in southern China bent over test papers and scribbled answers alone in hospital rooms, taking the life-changing "gaokao" college entrance exams despite being in virus-induced isolation.
June 29, 2021
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) has engaged with regional governments and other key stakeholders from across the region on the conception and planning of the 2021 regional examinations and registers its appreciation for their enriching contributions.
June 28, 2021
This law, also known as Republic Act No. 11448, allows foreign higher education institutions (HEIs) the ability to collaborate with local universities and other HEIs and to establish campuses in the country. This is the first time that overseas institutions will be allowed to open campuses in the Philippines.
June 25, 2021
The release of the HSC timetable marks the beginning of the final leg of the Year 12 school journey. NESA will continue to update with exceptions and changes to relevant deadlines. Higher School Certificate key dates include the start and finish of the written exam period, publication of timetables and when results are released.
June 25, 2021
Students in Portugal will only take the national exams needed to enter higher education. The rules for access to universities and polytechnics and for entrance exams will be the same as last year. The National Commission for Access to Higher Education (CNAES) recommended “the maintenance of all provisions” of 2020/21.
June 24, 2021
Written exams in Kuwait have been cancelled for the first semester of the academic year to help curb the spread of COVID-19. Education Minister Ali Al-Mudhaf said the decision was made following a series of meetings between officials from both education and health ministries.
June 23, 2021
National Examinations Council (NECO) has released results of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates. The Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal is scheduled to hold from Monday 5th July to Monday 16th August, 2021.
June 23, 2021
All primary, secondary and junior colleges will shift to full home-based learning from Wednesday until the end of the school term. “Some of these (virus) mutations are much more virulent, and they seem to attack the younger children,” said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing.
June 23, 2021
Japan began an alternative test of its new unified university entrance examination, mainly for students affected by prolonged school closures amid the coronavirus epidemic.