October 27, 2020
The West African Examinations Council announced that the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination results will be released late October.
October 27, 2020
President Donald Trump announced that he was signing an executive order to establish the “1776 Commission,” a group that would “promote patriotic education," and that the National Endowment for the Humanities would be awarding a grant to support the development of a “pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.”
October 27, 2020
Ministry of Education issued a decision to postpone the original start date of the academic school year. Students started their 2020-2021 academic year on August 30, 2020.
October 26, 2020
The new regulations for admission to francophone schools have been developed in consultation with education bodies, including the Commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest (CSFTNO), and come into effect immediately for the 2020-21 school year.
October 23, 2020
Many of bar and medical exams were postponed and testing sites shut down in the spring as the coronavirus spread across the country, forcing recent graduates to delay the start of their careers.
October 22, 2020
The Ontario government announced the transfer of governance of Centre Jules-Léger (CJL) from the Ministry of Education to the CJL Consortium. This ensures the province's only French-language school for children who have learning disabilities will be governed by Francophones for Francophones.
October 21, 2020
A teachers’ union is suing Quebec to obtain documents used to prepare the province’s back-to-school plan, claiming authorities are not being transparent about the number of infections in schools. Quebec’s back-to-school plan, unveiled in August, has also drawn criticism from parents.
October 20, 2020
Egypt’s Economic Court sentenced, on Saturday, the founder of ChaoMing Telegram channel to three years imprisonment for leaking Egypt’s high school (Thanaweya Amma) exams via the application. This comes after years of social media leaking and anti-cheating screenings.
October 19, 2020
Egypt's Minister of Education has "ambitious plans" to ensure that all students are connected to digital learning facilities during the novel Covid-19 period. This huge infrastructural overhaul of methods is pushing teachers to start preparing for electronic exams with paper exams abolished in the near future.
October 17, 2020
Egypt is set to establish the National Authority for Accreditation and Quality Insurance in Vocational Training and Technical Learning. Three Egyptian ministries are working to draw up a draft law that organises the new authority’s work and sets its functions.