April 13, 2023
Indian medical students who returned from abroad due to the COVID-19 pandemic, war and other exigencies were in a tizzy following the decision of India’s Supreme Court on 29 March allowing them two attempts to complete the MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) medical degree.
April 12, 2023
Higher education and research institutions, their staff and research projects in Burkina Faso are under threat from a jihadist insurgency, as the West African country’s military government struggles to maintain security in several regions.
April 12, 2023
Turkmenistan deposited with the Director-General its instrument of accession to the Convention on the Recognition of qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region
April 10, 2023
The Ministry of Education (MŠMT) wants to create a register of pupils, which is intended, among other things, to facilitate enrollment in kindergartens and primary schools and to enable electronic registration for secondary schools. The department is working on the creation of an information system to simplify school administration. The register, which will be part of the new education information system called eEdu, should be available in 2025 at the earliest.
April 10, 2023
President Andrzej Duda has vetoed legislation passed by Poland’s national-conservative ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party that would have centralised government control over schools. The education minister has argued that such a law is necessary to prevent “moral corruption” of children.
April 07, 2023
Two Polish universities have signed an agreement to create what would be the world’s first online degrees in Polish Studies available to international students.
April 05, 2023
Registration for the new Winter Higher Education Access Test (PAES), a test that will be taken on June 19, 20 and 22 and will be part of the 2024 Admission Process.
April 04, 2023
Approximately 114,000 applicants submitted applications for the uniform entrance exams for matriculation studies at secondary schools and multi-year gymnasiums. Last year, 103,000 children signed up for the exams organized by Cermat.
April 03, 2023
The 2023 baccalaureate specialty exams began late March and the good performance of exams is threatened by the movement against pension reform. Between delays, strikes and exceptional measures, many disruptions are to be expected.
March 29, 2023
The Polish education minister, Przemysław Czarnek, says that around 100,000 teachers will become redundant in the next two to three years, due to the demographic deficit and falling student numbers, especially in secondary schools. The cuts are expected to affect teachers of all specialisations.