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Hong Kong’s exam authority cancels English-speaking assessment amid Omicron outbreak

April 18, 2022

Speaking exam, part of curriculum for university entry, cancelled for three consecutive years. Exam authority chief says proximity required for English oral assessment could lead to ‘higher risk of [virus] transmissions’.

Peru Minedu ensures the education of young people in rural areas

April 15, 2022

In order to ensure the right to quality education for adolescents and young people in rural areas, the Ministry of Education (Minedu) established new models of educational services for this segment of the population.

Italy Maturity 2022 - attribution and conversion of school credit

April 14, 2022

In the final scrutiny, the class council proceeds to assign the scholastic credit to the pupils of the fifth grades of the upper secondary school, who will have to take the Maturity exam

Norway Directorate of Education shall assess whether the examination should be scrapped for good

April 13, 2022

The Directorate of Education is now working on adapting the exam to the subject renewal and the new curricula, which came in 2020.

Four percent fewer first-year students at Germany universities

April 12, 2022

The number of freshmen is falling. This development shows the consequences of the pandemic, but also demographic change.

Why France’s March baccalauréat exams are being pushed back to May

April 12, 2022

Two weeks after an unprecedented mobilization involving teachers and parents of students and less than a hundred days before the presidential election, Jean-Michel Blanquer is playing the appeasement card.

When and at what time are the Chile's PTU 2022 results published?

April 11, 2022

Students who took the University Transition Test (Ex Psu) will know the results of their exams in order to start the 2022 University Admission Process and access Higher Education.

Spain education raises the requirements of the Celaá Law to obtain graduate and high school degrees in Andalusia

April 08, 2022

The draft of the Ministry includes minimums such as having passed at least 60 percent of the core subjects of ESO. It will be possible to pass the baccalaureate with a suspended subject but the average between all the subjects must be equal to or greater than 5.

Germany - The number of students without a high school diploma is growing

April 08, 2022

They are still in the minority: students without university or technical college entrance qualifications. But their number has quadrupled since 2002.

Examinations at Norway universities, university colleges and vocational schools are to be completed

April 07, 2022

Measures and recommendations that focus on universities, university colleges and vocational schools must provide students with safe teaching, compulsory courses and examinations. This is why the Government is recommending more extensive use of digital teaching and teaching in smaller groups in line with infection control requirements.

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