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Moroccan Students to Sit for 2021 National Exams Amid COVID-19

July 13, 2021

Morocco’s Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research has announced that the national baccalaureate exams for this year are set to take place.

More than 30 Vietnam localities keep school closures, exams to be flexible

July 13, 2021

University and school students from more than 30 cities and provinces nationwide on May 10 entered the second week of online studying since their schools were shut on May 4 due to the serious ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks.

Guide for selectivity (EBAU) 2021: calendar, cut-off notes, venues

July 12, 2021

The Minister of Universities has confirmed that the EBAU exams will be face-to-face , provided that the epidemiological situation allows it. Madrid, Catalonia and the Canary Islands are the only communities that will hold the ordinary call in four days; the rest, in three.

Egypt Education Ministry announces format for open book high school exams

July 12, 2021

Egypt’s Ministry of Education announced the format it will use for its open book high school exams for the 2020/2021 academic year.

New Queensland Certificate of Education System

July 09, 2021

Senior secondary schooling in Queensland has changed. Year 12 students in 2020 was the first to graduate under the new Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) system. The new QCE system will give students the skills they need for success in work and life in the future.

Angola academic year with new curricular plans

July 09, 2021

The minister of Higher Education, Sciences, Technologies and Research, Maria do Rosário Bragança, said that the academic year will have new curricular plans in some courses.

Curriculum overhaul powers into 2021

July 08, 2021

The first stage of the NSW curriculum reform will see a reduction of more than 80 courses developed by schools classified as unnecessary.

Egypt's concern with final exams

July 08, 2021

Education Minister Tarek Shawki is trying to deal with the perennial problem of how best to assess final year school students.

Czech Republic Minister of Education statement on high school diplomas and distance education

July 07, 2021

Due to measures against the spread of Covid-19 and due to the declaration of an emergency, the personal presence of pupils and students in primary, secondary and higher vocational education in schools and school facilities are prohibited. Matura exams and final exams are difficult to administer in these conditions so they will be adjusted to a later date.

2021 Assessment Specifications for NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship External Assessment

July 07, 2021

Update on the NCEA assessments for 2021, change in Psychology External Assessment, and change to NCEA History Examinations.

High School Students in Protest Call to Strike National Exams Registration

July 06, 2021

Students across the country want a strike on enrollment in national secondary school exams. The objective, according to the movement that gathers the support of a hundred student associations, is to pressure the Ministry of Education to end the ban on taking exams for improving grades in higher education.

Nigeria Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board extends registration deadline, shifts examination dates

July 06, 2021

Prospective candidates for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (DE) programmes who have been battling difficulties in their attempts to register, can now relax as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a two-week deadline extension for the registration activities.

MOE schools to tighten safe management measures amid rise in COVID-19 cases

July 06, 2021

Enhanced measures will be rolled out at MOE kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, special education schools, junior colleges, Millennia Institute and institutes of higher learning (IHLs). Both school-based mid-year assessments and the mid-year GCE O- and A-Level mother tongue language examinations will proceed.

Status list of Class 12 examinations of various states of India

July 02, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the government has decided to cancel the CBSE 12th examination due to the prevailing Covid-19 situation. Following the CBSE, many states have called off the class 12 examinations.

Magoha Speaks on Leaked Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Maths Test

July 02, 2021

Education CS has termed the KCSE Maths paper allegedly leaked by a school principal through her Whatsapp as fake.

Invigilator faces jail time over KCSE exam leakage in Migori

July 01, 2021

An invigilator in Migori Country was arrested for leaking the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) to candidates ahead of scheduled time.

Egypt's Senate to discuss controversial amendments to education law

July 01, 2021

The amendments introduce a three-year Thanawaya Amma (high school) system and open the door for students to pass online exams.

All private schools in UAE following IB curriculum can take ‘non-exam route’

June 30, 2021

The Ministry of Education has approved the alternative assessment system (non-exam route), accredited by the International Baccalaureate, for all private schools that follow the International Baccalaureate Curriculum (IB) nationwide for the academic year 2020-2021.

Portugal schools will have autonomy to define evaluation criteria for the 2nd period

June 29, 2021

Minister Tiago Brandão Rodrigues understands that schools are “mature enough to understand how they want to assess their students”. The governor indicated the return of classroom teaching at a school in Paços de Ferreira.

Chinese students take crucial 'gaokao' exams in COVID-19 isolation

June 29, 2021

Teenage COVID-19 patients in southern China bent over test papers and scribbled answers alone in hospital rooms, taking the life-changing "gaokao" college entrance exams despite being in virus-induced isolation.

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