April 14, 2021
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested reopening classrooms in entities with a low level of contagion of COVID-19
April 13, 2021
Schools in Ghana are gradually opening their doors after ten months of confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The country has outline cleaning and disinfection operations as they continue to enforce strict health protocols.
April 13, 2021
The Education Department, in its first major decision under the Biden administration, told states that they will be granted significant flexibility in how and when they administer annual tests but they will not be exempt from administering them.
April 13, 2021
Due to the global coronavirus outbreak and the resulting lockdown in the country, the West Bengal government had postponed the examinations, which are usually held between February and March every year. West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education announces the secondary education board exams will start on June 1 and the higher secondary education board exams will be held from June 15, 2021.
April 12, 2021
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and the DepEd took back their approval for a dry run of face-to-face classes in 2021, as other countries report cases of the new coronavirus variant reaching their shores.
April 12, 2021
South Africa published a new curriculum policy document introducing new subjects for the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS).
April 09, 2021
The West Bengal government is not mulling over changes in its stated position of not starting classes in schools till the coronavirus pandemic situation improves. School curriculum in secondary and plus-two levels would be curtailed and classes would be conducted online
April 09, 2021
The school system is paralyzed in Kolda. Teachers affiliated with the unions that make up the G6 have declared a strike of 48 renewable hours to demand the payment of travel allowances for the general Baccalaureate and Technical Baccalaureate exams.
April 08, 2021
Morocco Ministry of Education announces a change in their education curriculum to include Jewish history and culture. Morocco also became the fourth Arab nation since August to announce a US-brokered deal to normalise relations with Israel.
April 07, 2021
Brazil Ministry of Education announced that they have adopted two measures related to the digitization of its processes: one concerns entry to colleges and universities, the other to the conclusion of Higher Education. The Enem is digital for the first time and all federal institutions of higher education will be able to issue digital degrees.
April 06, 2021
Minister of Education Tayseer Al-Nuaimi announced the ministry is conducting studies to create a special curricula for persons with disabilities through a ten year strategy in close partnership with the Supreme Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
April 06, 2021
Mexico's Senate approved a new General Law on Higher Education "whose objective is to train professionals with a high social commitment, who contribute to social, cultural, scientific, technological, humanistic, productive and economic of the country."
April 02, 2021
Australia welcomed its first group of international students since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Several of these students were from mainland China as tensions continue to grow between the two countries.
April 01, 2021
Hong Kong will rename the liberal studies programme taught to older students and require they visit mainland China as part of wide-reaching reforms to the controversial subject. Some teachers express alarm over the changes, noting not all align with suggestions made in a three-year review by a task force.
March 31, 2021
In Guinea, National Autonomous Union of Higher Education and Scientific Research (SNAESURS) calls all workers on higher education institutions in the country to observe a four-day strike.
March 31, 2021
Following the surge in COVID-19 cases in Anambra State of Nigeria, the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano has postponed the reopening of schools in the state by two weeks. He said the decisions had become necessary following the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that was “sweeping across the world”.
March 31, 2021
Faced with a rapid resurgence of COVID-19 overwhelming the country’s hospitals and driven by a more infectious variant of the virus, South Africa has delayed reopening its schools.
March 30, 2021
The Quebec government chose to reopen elementary schools on Jan. 11 and secondary schools Jan. 18, despite the fact that the number of active cases in Quebec and an imposed curfew. Studies have shown that in-person school has been driving Montreal Covid-19 infection rates.
March 30, 2021
Rich, poor; young, old(er); Arab, Jew: Students of all stripes across the Middle East have experienced a school year like no other. For almost a year, their learning has been disrupted by the novel coronavirus with on-again, off-again in-person classes and lessons on Zoom.
March 30, 2021
Cambodia has started reopening schools as it relaxes a six-week lockdown following a coronavirus outbreak late last year, marking a contrast with some neighbouring countries that are facing new restrictions due to rising COVID-19 cases.