September 02, 2020
The general education (GE) curriculum movement is taking center stage in undergraduate education in China, becoming a mandatory graduation requirement and a core component of the country's university education system.
September 02, 2020
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has urged professional examinees to consider taking its online examination, as all the pen and paper tests (PPTs) for 2020 had been canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic.
August 31, 2020
Basic education classes will resume on October 5 as President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a six-week-long postponement amid the coronavirus crisis. The Department of Education made the recommendation to change the start date, which was originally earlier set on August 24, due to logistical challenges brought by Covid-19 quarantines.
August 28, 2020
U.S. immigration officials have issued new guidance saying new international students, unlike current international students, cannot come to the U.S. to take an entirely online course of study. New international students may enroll in hybrid programs consisting of a mix of in-person and online courses, as long as their coursework is not "100 percent online."
August 27, 2020
The SPM exam was supposed to be held from Nov 16 to Dec 7 this year. The Education Ministry (MOE) has announced the rescheduled dates of major examinations will be held next year in 2021.
August 26, 2020
The Beirut Port explosion that occurred on August 4, 2020 caused partial or complete destruction of about 70 public schools and 50 private schools in Beirut and neighboring areas. Such devastation threatens to disrupt the new academic year and deprive about 55,000 Lebanese and non-Lebanese students enrolled in these schools of their right to education.
August 26, 2020
Morocco’s Ministry of Education will organize, for the first time ever, national unified entry exams for medical, pharmacy, and dental schools. Students will take their exam at one of the new available exam centers, which limits the need to travel during the Covid-19 pandemic.
August 25, 2020
The Regional Academy of Education and Training (AREF) has replied to students from the town of Taounate who protested the alleged inaccurate correction of baccalaureate exams. Students traveled to the imperial city to protest and demanding the correction of their exam papers, in accordance with the criteria set out by the Ministry of Education. Several weeks later, Morocco MOE reports a record-breaking exam retake season.
August 25, 2020
UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says he is "incredibly sorry for the distress" caused to pupils after having to make a U-turn in how A-levels and GCSEs are graded. With this continues to develop, universities are scrambling over changes and placements of incoming students.
August 24, 2020
The Education and Training Act 2020, containing the biggest changes to New Zealand education in decades, has passed all stages in Parliament and become law.
August 21, 2020
The United Kingdom Government has announced in an official statement that students in England will receive teacher assessed grades for GCSE and A level results this summer. This come after an outpouring of anger over the decision to use an algorithm to determine grades that led to almost 40% of predicted results being downgraded.
August 21, 2020
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has instructed the Ministry of Education and Training to hold the high school graduation examination in all provinces and cities as previously scheduled, including in Da Nang where new COVID-19 cases have appeared. The examination date is two months later than in previous years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 20, 2020
More than 800 third-grade high school students and 25 teachers in Peru will have access to online French classes from mid-August. In the future, they will have the possibility of achieving the DELF certification granted by the French Ministry of National Education.
August 20, 2020
Hong Kong’s biggest international school group has joined thousands of students worldwide in demanding that the International Baccalaureate explain poorer-than-expected grades based on schoolwork, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of written examinations. A global online petition is being circulated and has drawn over 23,000 signatures so far.
August 19, 2020
Hong Kong school leavers are more stressed than ever, worrying about exam test results and job prospects due to the double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-government protests. Over 52,000 Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) candidates encountered major disruption to their final year.
August 18, 2020
Sweden Education Minister announced that a university entry exam, the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT), is likely to be canceled again due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will move to spring 2021 instead. The move to cancel the exam comes after consultation with the universities responsible for carrying out the tests, and the body responsible for organising the exams recommending their cancellation.
August 18, 2020
Nearly 40% of the 700,000 teacher A-level assessments downgraded by exam regulator's algorithm for students in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, according to detailed analysis published by exam regulator Ofqual.
August 17, 2020
Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) says students who missed parts of the O-and A-level mother tongue language examinations last month because of the Covid-19 pandemic will be fairly assessed and not disadvantaged. This comes after a several students missed their exams due to them testing positive for Covid-19.
August 14, 2020
India’s plans to completely overhaul its higher education system for the first time in 34 years and to open it to international branch campuses have been hailed as impressive by observers. The National Education Policy (NEP), approved after 12 months of public consultation, sets out a 20-year blueprint to nearly double higher education capacity.
August 14, 2020
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has said that it that it will not cancel their CBSE compartment exams for 10th and 12th with thoughts that it will adversely affect candidates.