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Egypt denies unvaccinated university students access to first term exams

January 18, 2022

Egyptian university students will be denied access to first term exams next month unless they can show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test.

Portugal national exams keep questions optional this school year

January 18, 2022

Similar to what happened in the last two years because of the pandemic, the set of optional questions will remain in this school year's national exams in Portugal.

Record Wave of U.S. Omicron School Closures Is Set to Abate

January 17, 2022

U.S. school closures reached a record high for the academic year last week as omicron-fueled coronavirus cases caused staff shortages and disrupted classes, but the shutdowns are about to ease as more schools are set to reopen in-person.

Schools gradually reopen in Iran amid declining Covid cases

January 14, 2022

Schools in Iran are due to reopen for students in years 10, 11 and 12 as academic institutions across the country continue to gradually return to in-person studies this academic year due to a decline in Covid-19 infection rates.

Egypt's 2021 Education overhaul

January 13, 2022

The Ministry of Education continued its efforts to modernise the Egyptian education system by introducing new techniques in teaching and examining K-12 students.

Haiti Earthquake's Latest Victim May Be The New School Year

January 13, 2022

Authorities in Haiti have postponed the start of school across the country after last month's 7.2 magnitude earthquake destroyed schools and homes across Haiti's southern peninsula. It is the latest unwanted disruption to education in Haiti, where instruction has been interrupted repeatedly over the last two years due both to COVID-19 and the gang violence and kidnappings that have terrorized much of the country.

Portugal government updated school calendar, affected by measures to combat the pandemic

January 12, 2022

The Government confirmed through an order in Diário da República the school calendar announced by António Costa. The prime minister, when informing the country that new restrictions would be imposed to contain the advance of covid-19.

There is no longer a limit of failures to pass the course or graduate in Spain's ESO

January 12, 2022

The evaluation decree approved turns repetition into something exceptional and liquidates recoveries in compulsory education.

Buenos Aires government announced a key change in secondary education

January 12, 2022

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the Buenos Aires government provided details of the educational practices program in the workplace that will govern from 2022 in all secondary schools in the City of Buenos Aires.

Egypt’s 2021 Thanaweyya Amma exams concluded amid irregular conditions

January 10, 2022

About 392,863 students in the scientific and mathematical steams took their final Thanaweya Amma (school leaving) exam, amid unusual conditions due to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Thanaweyya Amma graduation rate records 74% for academic year 2020-2021.

A-Level results: Grades hit record high after exams cancelled for second year in a row

January 05, 2022

The proportion of A-level entries awarded an A grade or higher has surged to an all-time high after exams were cancelled for the second year in a row due to Covid-19.

GCSE and A-level changes give pupils advance warning of exam content

January 04, 2022

Teenagers in England will be given advance warning of some exam content next year because of disruption caused by Covid, the government says.

Spain Ministry of Education will eliminate this year's high school recovery exams

January 04, 2022

This course there will be no make-up exams for Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) students. The Ministry of Education is forced to end the change to comply with the opinion issued by the Council of State on this issue, according to sources from the department of Pilar Alegría.

Exam pass rate in Scotland down from last year but higher than pre-Covid levels

January 01, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted yet another year of education in Scotland, as shown by their school results this year.

Over 60,000 Rwandan students fail national exams, to repeat classes

December 31, 2021

The results released on Monday by the Ministry of Education shows that more than 44,100 pupils and more than 16,400 students performed poorly in the exams and will have to repeat their classes. Data shows that 251,906 pupils sat for the primary leaving exams and 121,626 students sat for the ordinary level leaving exams.

Haiti releases results of the BAC exams

December 30, 2021

The Ministry of National Education has just released the full results of the exams for the single bac for the 2020-2021 academic year for the renovated and traditional secondary as well as the permanent BAC.

Nigeria WAEC releases results

December 29, 2021

The release of the results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE for School Candidates, 2021 in Nigeria have been released with a total of 80.56 per cent fully processed, and 19.44 per cent still being processed due to some issues being resolved.

Brazil Enem 2021: official test feedback is released

December 29, 2021

Feedback only allows the student to know their total number of correct answers, but the result with the final grade (objective tests and writing) comes out on February 11th.

Italy's Maturity 2021: more than 15,000 students with honors

December 28, 2021

On the website of the Ministry of Education, the first data relating to the State Exams of upper secondary school are available. Also for 2021, following the health emergency, only one test was kept, the oral one.

New subjects and schedules in Spain's ESO

December 27, 2021

The draft decree of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) establishes the curriculum of the subjects to be studied in this stage. It also establishes the minimum hours that must be given for each of the 19 subjects in the institutes.

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