February 14, 2022
NSW is bracing for the immediate impact of Omicron on the state’s classrooms with fears of staff shortages prompting the government to try to entice part-time teachers to take on full-time work in schools. Meanwhile, Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said: “We are not having school closures due to COVID anymore."
February 11, 2022
According to the draft from the Ministry of Education, the exam will be structured in three stages: a written test of Italian of a national nature, common to all study areas; a "diploma thesis", with the subject assigned to graduates by April and returned by May; and an oral interview, structured in several phases.
February 11, 2022
The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has released an updated Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) timetable with the official commencement of the much-anticipated exam being in February 2022.
February 10, 2022
The tests of the Enem (National High School Exam) 2022 will be applied on November 13 and 20, as the Minister of Education, Milton Ribeiro. An ordinance with the dates was published in the DOU (Diário Oficial da União).
February 09, 2022
Minister Benmoussa maintains that reform is a painful but necessary step forward for Morocco’s education system.
February 08, 2022
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said schooling will not begin as originally scheduled to allow school boards additional time to plan for the return of students amid rising COVID-19 numbers. She also announced that Grade 12 diploma exams will be cancelled.
February 08, 2022
Most appeals challenged teachers’ judgment or the selection of pupils’ work used to determine the result.
February 07, 2022
Undergraduate Certificates will continue to be available under the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) for at least the next three and a half years.
February 07, 2022
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) Liberia Office has released its 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAESSCE) result, withholding more than 30 percent of examination results based on malpractice and collusion.
February 04, 2022
Nearly 50,000 students were absent from Quebec schools due to COVID-19 less than two weeks after in-person classes resumed.
February 03, 2022
The decision introduced a unified test each semester for each education level, with the exception of the second semester of the final year of each educational cycle.
February 02, 2022
TEQSA lodged the application in July 2021, seeking an injunction requiring 51 carriage service providers to take such steps as the Court considers reasonable to disable access to the website.
February 01, 2022
Venezuela reopened public schools and universities which serve more than 11 million students, after a long closure amid the coronavirus pandemic, though some schools remained closed for repairs or because of lack of staff.
February 01, 2022
Education Barbara Floridia states the exam will be different from last year and that if the pandemic allows, they will try to go back to a traditional exam.
January 31, 2022
Quebec Education Minister Jean-François Roberge will reintroduce mandatory ministerial exams in 2021-22 and change the way they are weighted. The 2021-2022 school year will be divided into two terms, with the following weighting: 40 per cent for the first term (August 2021 to January 2022) and 60 per cent for the second (February 2022 to June 2022).
January 31, 2022
Approximately 207,000 students had signed up to take part in the Tawjihi exams for the summer session of 2021, according to the Ministry of Education. Education Ministry announces Tawjihi results last August.
January 28, 2022
The National Examination and School Inspection Authority (NESA) has released a nationwide ‘back to school’ transport schedule for boarding students.
January 27, 2022
The head of Education indicated that the new National Curriculum will be oriented towards problem solving with a STEAM approach (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) and that Minedu is preparing a set of measures to start the evaluation of this document taking taking into account the sociocultural characteristics of each territory.
January 26, 2022
Morocco’s ministry of education announced the extension of the 2021-2022 school year by a month, and Moroccan schools officially opened last October. Schools will follow the government calendar to carry on upcoming exams, scheduled for July 2022.
January 25, 2022
Large numbers of students left school during the pandemic and never came back.