July 11, 2023
Record numbers will sit this year's Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle exams, which got under way this morning. More than 63,000 candidates have registered for the Leaving Certificate exams, while more than 71,000 are expected to sit Junior Cycle papers.
July 10, 2023
After the cancellation of the Saber Pro and Saber TyT tests scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, more than 70,000 students are waiting to learn about the rescheduling of these tests.
July 08, 2023
The National Examinations Council, NECO, has rescheduled the 2023 entrance examination for gifted and talented children into Federal Government Academy in Suleja.
July 07, 2023
A bill for an Act to Repeal the National Examinations Council (NECO) Act 2004, has passed second reading on the floor of the house of Representatives.
July 06, 2023
Icfes reported that due to technical problems on the platform, the session had to be rescheduled.
July 05, 2023
Teachers will be "dismayed" that plans to abolish the SQA exams body have been delayed, Scotland's biggest education union has said. The EIS said the agency's reputation was already "in tatters".
July 04, 2023
Universities will offer more than 20 shortened courses – including in teaching, cybersecurity, engineering and nursing – as the Albanese government moves to plug chronic skills shortages across the country.
July 03, 2023
Exam season is coming to an end for A-level and other students across the UK. For many pupils, it was the first time they sat formal exams, because GCSEs did not go ahead as normal during the pandemic.
June 30, 2023
Province introducing new mandatory learning on mental health starting this upcoming school year.
June 29, 2023
The results of this year's Leaving Certificate exams will be published on Friday 25 August. Announcing the date, Minister for Education Norma Foley said it represented "a significant and very welcome step towards pre-pandemic norms".
June 29, 2023
The State Examinations Commission (SEC) is aiming to introduce Ukrainian as an exam subject in June 2025 for students moving into Senior Cycle from September.
June 28, 2023
A radical review of school qualifications in Scotland is to be published before the end of the month. The review was commissioned by the Scottish government to look at how well the system is working after Standard Grades were abolished 10 years ago.
June 27, 2023
GCSE and A-level students are being told their grades will be protected from Covid disruption, as exams get under way for most students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
June 26, 2023
The NSW government will delay the rollout of almost 30 syllabuses in an effort to give school teachers more time to concentrate on sweeping changes to the English and maths curriculum.
June 23, 2023
Minister of Education and Minister of Scientific Research and Higher Education Azmi Mahafza said that the ministry will add six vocational training specialisations this academic year, and will add 10 more specialisations by the year 2024, as reported by Al Mamlaka TV.
June 22, 2023
Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, said the influx of international students in the Netherlands should be controlled, when necessary, in order to prevent overcrowded classrooms, the high workload for lecturers, lack of housing, and pressure on education accessibility.
June 21, 2023
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has set November 6 for this year’s high school examinations. It advised school principals and heads of educational departments to begin preparations, so exams will go smoothly.
June 20, 2023
Plan will bring in nearly 1,000 more educators to public school system, education ministry says.
June 19, 2023
The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training has decided to paralyze the approval of the royal decree of the new Evaluation of the Baccalaureate for University Access (EBAU), whose implementation was to begin in the 2023-2024 academic year, after the President of the Government , Pedro Sánchez, has announced the early call for general elections and the dissolution of the Cortes.
June 16, 2023
The Minister of Education, Aurora Vergara Figueroa, accompanied President Gustavo Petro in the sanction of the Law of the National Development Plan (PND) 2022 - 2026, 'Colombia, world power of life', which outlines the road map to advance in the great transformations that the education of the country requires.