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Australia NSW prepares for teacher COVID shortages ahead of schools return

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."

For Italy's Maturity 2022, the diploma thesis arrives

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.

The New Kenya KCSE Timetable

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.

Inep announces dates for the 2022 Enem exams

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).

Morocco Education Minister Announces New Method to Regulate Teaching Profession

February 09, 2022

Minister Benmoussa maintains that reform is a painful but necessary step forward for Morocco’s education system.

Return to learning delayed and diploma exams cancelled in Alberta province

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.

UK GCSE and A-level grade appeals increased almost five-fold in 2021

February 08, 2022

Most appeals challenged teachers’ judgment or the selection of pupils’ work used to determine the result.

Undergraduate Certificates in Australia to continue as a higher education qualification

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.

WAEC Liberia Withholds 32 Percent of the 2021 Examination Results Due to Examination Malpractice

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.

Nearly 50,000 Quebec students, more than 2,000 teachers absent due to COVID-19

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.

Morocco’s Ministry of Education Cancels Unified Continuous Assessment

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.

Australia TEQSA successful in Federal Court action to block access to cheating website

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.

Millions of Venezuelan students return to school after COVID-19 closures

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.

Italy's Maturity takes shape as writing returns but only in Italian

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.

Quebec education minister to reintroduce provincial exams in 2021-2022 school year

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).

Tawjihi students sit for exams in Jordan

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.

Rwanda Students To Return To School

January 28, 2022

The National Examination and School Inspection Authority (NESA) has released a nationwide ‘back to school’ transport schedule for boarding students.

Peru Minedu will work with decentralized National Curriculum regions

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.

Morocco Announces Exam Schedule for National, Regional Baccalaureate

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.

US community colleges continue major enrollment decline

January 25, 2022

Large numbers of students left school during the pandemic and never came back.

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