September 04, 2020
As schools resume across Canada in September, changes are being implemented province by province to protect students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Prime Minister announced $2 billion in support for provinces and territories to ensure the safety of students and staff members throughout the school year.
September 04, 2020
Postgraduate medical education in Canada drastically changed due to COVID-19. This article identifies key issues that medical schools and residents face in this new paradigm of medical education.
September 04, 2020
EQAO, the province’s standardized testing in Ontario, is cancelled for the 2019-20 school year amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Secondary School Literacy Test for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma has been waived for this graduation year.
September 03, 2020
Minister of Education and Technical Education announced on Tuesday that the success rate for this year’s secondary school-leaving (Thanaweyya Amma) exams stands at 81.5%. This comes after a series of changes to precautionary anti-cheating measures and exam safety procedures due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
September 03, 2020
Commission of Higher Education announced that several colleges and universities in the Philippines have decided to waive entrance examinations and instead assess students’ admission based on their high school average. There is no uniform policy on the conduct of entrance examinations as other higher education institutions are still holding physical or hybrid entrance examinations.
September 03, 2020
The Egyptian government and students enrolled in the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) programme have praised Cambridge’s move to reverse a controversial decision that had downgraded students’ test results. This comes after students expressing outraged over downgraded IGCSE results.
September 02, 2020
The Education Ministry announced yesterday that the Advanced Level (A/L) examination would be held from October 12 to November 6 while the Grade Five Scholarship examination will be held on October 11. The postponement of the exams are based on a conducted survey with students, teachers, and principals.
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.