October 21, 2020
A teachers’ union is suing Quebec to obtain documents used to prepare the province’s back-to-school plan, claiming authorities are not being transparent about the number of infections in schools. Quebec’s back-to-school plan, unveiled in August, has also drawn criticism from parents.
October 20, 2020
Egypt’s Economic Court sentenced, on Saturday, the founder of ChaoMing Telegram channel to three years imprisonment for leaking Egypt’s high school (Thanaweya Amma) exams via the application. This comes after years of social media leaking and anti-cheating screenings.
October 19, 2020
Egypt's Minister of Education has "ambitious plans" to ensure that all students are connected to digital learning facilities during the novel Covid-19 period. This huge infrastructural overhaul of methods is pushing teachers to start preparing for electronic exams with paper exams abolished in the near future.
October 17, 2020
Egypt is set to establish the National Authority for Accreditation and Quality Insurance in Vocational Training and Technical Learning. Three Egyptian ministries are working to draw up a draft law that organises the new authority’s work and sets its functions.
October 16, 2020
The Ministry of Education announced that in-person education in Sidi Yahia El Gharb is postponed until further notice. The decision is due to the emergence of a new Covid-19 hotspot in the Atlantic Free industrial zone. Later, the Ministry of Education announced all educational institutions will adopt distance remote learning.
October 16, 2020
Government says Ministry of Education officials are banging heads to find out how best to reopen some institutions of higher learning on case by case basis.
October 15, 2020
The Ministry of Education is seeking a budget of 76.3 trillion for 2021, with hopes of making primary, middle, and high school education to be free for all students in South Korea.
October 14, 2020
Details of the strategic partnership between South Korea and Uzbekistan. Included in the overall plan are details of education reform and collaboration.
October 13, 2020
Hundreds of high school students protested outside the education ministry in Bangkok to demand education reform. Stating that the system is outdated and are calling for freedom to be able to speak their minds at school.
October 12, 2020
Many students want the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), scheduled for September, to be postponed due to fears over rising Covid-19 cases.
October 09, 2020
Students in Vietnamese provinces of Bac Nin, Dien Bien, and Binh Phuoc had to retake their national high school exams due to supervisors' errors.
October 08, 2020
Morocco's Ministry of Education has made a series of changes to the primary school curricula. These set of changes will go into effect at the start of the 2020-2021 school year. These changes fall within Morocco’s 2015-2030 vision for educational reform, aiming to improve the education system.
October 08, 2020
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed rule to be published in the Federal Register would eliminate the current “duration of status” (D/S) policy for international students (F status) and exchange visitors (J status).
October 07, 2020
China's international schools are reopening this month, but there will be a shortage of teachers and pupils, as they are currently stranded overseas due to travel restrictions and other challenges.
October 06, 2020
Morocco’s Ministry of Education has denied the postponement of the regional baccalaureate exam, dismissing a fake press release attributed to the ministry. The regional exam normally takes place in mid-June of every year, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exams have been pushed back several times.
October 06, 2020
A Level examinations will be held in November 2020 at schools that are believed to be safe and with necessary permissions from government authorities. CAIE also announced that November 2020 exams will not be canceled and will proceed physically as well.
October 05, 2020
Ministry of Education announced that schools in Seoul and surrounding cities will remain online-only until September 20. This measure came as the government decided to extend the social distancing restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic.
October 02, 2020
Egypt's Minister of Education and Technical Education announced their new 2020/2021 academic calendar with the year starting on October 17 with a variety of precautionary measures in place to combat the novel Covid-19 crisis.
October 02, 2020
Australia passed the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment (Governance and Other Matters) Bill. This is a step towards improving Australia's vocational education and training vector (VET) with Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) as an effective, modern regulator.
October 01, 2020
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) will introduce a wide-ranging “consideration of educational disadvantage” process to calculate each student’s Australian Tertiary Admission Ranking. All students in Victoria will undergo this case-by-case review due to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.