January 21, 2021
Tunisia Minister of Education issued the schedule for the written national exams for the 2020-2021 year. The main session of the baccalaureate will take place next June in 2021.
January 20, 2021
The Ministry of National Education has released new information on changes to the baccalaureate. Citing that they hope to giveback its meaning and its usefulness with a remuscular examination and a simpler high school, more attentive to the aspirations of high school students, and to give them the means to project themselves towards success in higher education.
January 19, 2021
The dates of the written exams for the national diploma of the patent, the baccalaureate, the CAP and the BEP 2021 have just been set by the Ministry of Education and Youth.
January 18, 2021
Department of Education announced that the calculated grades awarded to students by some schools and teachers in the Leaving Cert had been a “severe overestimation."
January 18, 2021
The Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) has cancelled the 2020 final secondary school-leaving examinations after a number of test papers were leaked. Exams have been postponed to March 2021.
January 15, 2021
Minister of Education reaffirmed in parliament the continuity of face-to-face teaching, recalling that schools “are not privileged focuses” of Covid-19 transmission.
January 14, 2021
The university entrance exams, known as Selectividad, will be held on June 15-17, 2021, if the current covid-19 situation is maintained. The tests must fully completed before June 18 and the provisional results of the tests will be published before June 25.
January 13, 2021
Moroccan Ministry of Higher Education's plan to bump up the number of years required to earn a bachelor’s degree from three to four years has been delayed.
January 12, 2021
In the lead up to the new primary school leaving examination (PSLE) scoring system next year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has released the range of indicative cut-off points for different types of secondary schools in Singapore.
January 11, 2021
The Niger government has just announced new measures and reforms in the organization of the 2021 baccalaureate exam session.
January 08, 2021
University of Brasilia (UnB) will not take the entrance exam for new students in 2020. Students will be accessed through the National High School Exam (Enem). This comes as the country continues to deal with the coronavirus.
January 08, 2021
The Government has insisted that GCSE and A-level exams will go ahead in England despite the new national lockdown. Exams are due to start three weeks later than normal in 2021.
January 07, 2021
Baccalaureate exams continue on in Madagascar as the country reported nearly 17,000 cases of Covid-19 (include 238 deaths) and after an exam subject scandal between teachers and candidates.
January 06, 2021
The dissemination of false subjects of the current baccalaureate examination continues as they were published on social networks that affected localities - Antalaha, Ihorombe and Antananarivo.
January 05, 2021
Welsh government told there should be no GCSE and AS-level exams, and single paper for A-levels. The single A-level exam would enable students in Wales to apply for higher education places next summer, alongside their peers in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where A-levels are being retained.
January 04, 2021
There is currently discussion for plans to be "holistically more generous grading" as there is an increasingly urgent need to fix arrangements for next summer’s exams.
January 04, 2021
Education Minister Peter Weir decided that November GCSE exams in Northern Ireland postponed for two weeks and will now take place November 23 to 25. This comes as over 1,500 positive cases of coronavirus has been recorded in schools since they reopened.
January 03, 2021
Wales Education Minister Williams announced that Wales' GCSE and A-levels are canceled for summer 2021. Assessments will be done under teacher supervision.
January 02, 2021
Education ministry recommends distance learning in universities. This recommendation is for vocational education, professional higher education, and higher education facilities.
January 01, 2021
A-levels and GCSEs in England are still going ahead for 2021, but the exams will now start June 7 to make up for the lost teaching time.