February 08, 2021
Afghanistan's education system has been facing a crisis before Covid-19 hit the country. As the year progressed, the education system continues to face many different challenges causing many students to drop out of school. With lack of electricity, distance learning over the radio, and decreased academic year, the education system will take a while to recover.
February 07, 2021
Afghanistan Ministry of Education decided to shut down public and private secondary and high schools in cold-climate areas. This decision will impact the students as the country already lost several months of the educational year due to Covid-19 restrictions and quarantine.
February 05, 2021
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education has given its approval to holding A Level and General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations in January 2021, with some conditions.
February 05, 2021
Sudan Higher Committee for Health Emergencies decided to postpone the opening of schools until further notice.
February 05, 2021
After months of government preparation, the Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) is here for the students of Brazil. The printed version of the Enem will be on January 17 and 24, 2021, while the new digital exam will be on January 31 and February 7.
February 04, 2021
Community Education Minister announced that the examinations held in December in secondary schools for Belgium's German-speaking Community is now canceled. This decision comes after consultation with high-school principals managing a hybrid education system for second and third grades (14 to 18 year olds).
February 04, 2021
Egyptian Minister of Education has approved the procedures and conditions for exams of expatriate students for the 2020/2021 academic year. Exams for expat students will be held on two days in 2021.
February 04, 2021
The joint evaluation tests for the new baccalaureate in Première and Terminale are canceled in favor of continuous assessment as Covid-19 cases continue to rise. This news comes after the country originally criticized the scheduled exam dates as it fell during the Reunion school holidays.
February 03, 2021
With the release of the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination results, the Federal Government has announced that they have changed the national cut off marks for the examinations at 142.
February 02, 2021
Libya Ministry of Education has amended their plans for the new academic year. It was also announced that there will be no mid-terms or end-of-semester exams, but students will still be tested at the end of each school day.
February 02, 2021
Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to maintain the tradition of maktab schools, which form the basis of religious education in the country. Today, all children from the first grade to ninth grade can attend maktabs. With the development of modern schools, however, the number of maktabs has decreased in the Islamic world.
February 02, 2021
South Africa Basic Education Minister announced that the matric examinations, the math paper 2 and the physical science paper 2, will have to be rewritten due to exam leaks.
February 02, 2021
Over two months after students across Pakistan returned to classes, authorities decided to close all educational institutions again to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. All universities, colleges and schools will switch to online teaching mode.
February 01, 2021
National Examination Council NECO has stopped the conduct of the Senior School Certificate Examination SSCE after the country-wide #ENDSARS protests. The decision to stop the conduct of the examination also followed the declaration of 24-hour curfew by some state governors especially those of Lagos, Ogun, Edo and Imo where the #ENDSARS protest had assumed destructive dimensions.
February 01, 2021
Hong Kong pushed back the re-opening of classrooms for more than a month as part of government measures to stamp out the spread of the coronavirus.
January 29, 2021
The Philippines Supreme Court is ironed out preparations for the country’s first-ever localized and online examination for new lawyers later this year with the holding of a mock bar exam. The mock test will be small-scale involving 120 students divided in four testing sites–Baguio City, Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao.
January 29, 2021
Students of government and private medical colleges in Bangladesh have staged a protest at Shahbagh, demanding online classes as an alternative, as they refuse to sit for exams amid the coronavirus crisis.
January 28, 2021
The government has decided not to hold Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations this year.
January 27, 2021
Education Minister Dipu Moni declared "There will be no annual exams for them. There will be no results, no grading …" Students will be promoted to next classes this year without any annual examinations and will be assessed through assignments.
January 26, 2021
South Africa’s Department of Basic Education (DBE) confirmed it will investigate circumstances around a leaked Mathematics Paper 2 “fully and thoroughly”. “The origins of the leak are not clear as yet but the matric candidates who had access to the question paper appear to be located in Limpopo and Gauteng provinces,” the Department of Education said in a statement.