September 21, 2020
Canada's largest school board attempts to centralize the virtual instruction of their Ontario curriculum. A model called centralized online education promises to be more effective than what was hastily prepared in the spring, but some are concerned of this new implementation.
September 19, 2020
Government of British Columbia announces delay in originally planned school start date for more gradual return. British Columbia’s plan includes new health and safety measures, increased funding for protective equipment like masks and new learning groups to help keep everyone safe.
September 18, 2020
Education Ministry and the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) announced that four national examinations in Singapore will go on as scheduled, but with special arrangements made to ensure that students and invigilators remain safe from the Covid-19 virus.
September 18, 2020
Graduating medical school students are required to take part one of the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam (MCCQE) at some point during their first year of residency. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, students will now have to take the exam online which has resulted in several difficulties.
September 17, 2020
International Baccalaureate cancels May 2020 DP examinations and the MYP eAssessment, to ensure that IB students are not disadvantaged as they progress to their next phase of education.
September 17, 2020
Ontario’s released a new full math curriculum for Grades 1-8 in the summer and teachers will use it in classrooms starting in September 2020. However, teachers decry 'unrealistic' math curriculum rollout during pandemic, saying they've had little guidance on material they're expected to teach in just a few weeks.
September 16, 2020
Minister of Education Foley announced that Calculated Grades will be issued to students directly, in addition to issuing simultaneously to students' schools. This change comes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and making sure students and staff stay safe.
September 16, 2020
With the school year in Alberta beginning the first week of September, parents and teachers are protesting provincial re-entry plans. Protests have been held outside more than two dozen MLA offices across Alberta, putting pressure on the province to implement changes for school in the fall.
September 16, 2020
Ireland Department of Education releases statement on plans to fully re-open schools for this upcoming academic year. Minister of Education Foley also provided an update on state examinations for 2021.
September 15, 2020
Minister of Education Foley announced that the 2020 Leaving Certificate examinations will be postponed until November 2020, subject to public health advice and engagement during the Covid-19 pandemic.
September 14, 2020
Minister of Education and Research of Estonia announces that students will be able to take two state exams on a voluntary basis: Estonian language and mathematics. English exam will not be held this year.
September 14, 2020
The new school year is set to stick to the traditional September 1 start date, despite having closed down initially in March and making state exams in Math and Estonian language option due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The education ministry also says that an autumn coronavirus second wave would not lead to a repeat of the mass school closures that spring's outbreak brought.
September 11, 2020
Thousand of students who received the International Baccalaureate diploma this year will have their grades increased. This comes after backlash IB applied its algorithms to adjust their final results downwards, causing students failing to meet their university offers.
September 10, 2020
After this year's GCSEs and A-levels fiasco, calls have been made that next year's results need to be based again on teacher assessments. Several top education officials have also been fired or released due to the mishandling of this year's exam results.
September 10, 2020
The pandemic has shifted Spain's academic calendar for the 2020-2021 year, announced by the Education Sector. Students will also have postponed entrance exams in all autonomous communities and later university enrollment dates.
September 09, 2020
The 'Selectividad' exam have been more flexible, with greater optionality, due to the confinement suffered by students by the coronavirus pandemic. Aside from the flexibility during the pandemic, the exam has faced several controversies with changes to different parts of the exam.
September 09, 2020
BTec results were released and students will be receiving revised grades. Grading was delayed by Pearson due to recalculation after A-level and GCSE results were lowered that affected over 400,000 students.
September 09, 2020
Of the 402,000 students registered to take the SAT and SAT Subject Tests in August, nearly half will be unable to take the test for which they signed up because so many testing centers have closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
September 09, 2020
Education Minister of Netherlands announced that central school leaving exams have been cancelled. This comes after secondary school organizations urged the government, saying that it is impossible to organize these exams in a safe way during the Covid-19 pandemic.
September 09, 2020
Full publications and press releases from the Government of United Kingdom relating to the changes of awarding vocational and technical qualifications in the academic year for 2019-2020. Ofqual has been working with awarding organizations to ensure alternative arrangements of over 14,000 qualifications.