AACRAO EDGE

Many of bar and medical exams were postponed and testing sites shut down in the spring as the coronavirus spread across the country, forcing recent graduates to delay the start of their careers.

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Oct 22, 2020

Ontario Transfers Governance of Francophone School Serving Students with Special Needs

The Ontario government announced the transfer of governance of Centre Jules-Léger (CJL) from the Ministry of Education to the CJL Consortium. This ensures the province's only French-language school for children who have learning disabilities will be governed by Francophones for Francophones.

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Oct 21, 2020

Quebec teachers’ union suing government for info on coronavirus back-to-school plan

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.

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Oct 20, 2020

ChaoMing Telegram channel founder imprisoned for leaking Thanaweyya Amma exams

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.

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Oct 19, 2020

"We want all students in Egypt connected in next period," says Education Minister

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.

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Oct 17, 2020

Egypt to establish new authority to improve vocational training, technical learning

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.

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Oct 16, 2020

Morocco Cancels In-Person Education in Sidi Yahia El Gharb

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.

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Oct 15, 2020

Government officials bang heads over reopening of colleges

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.

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Oct 15, 2020

High school education to be free beginning 2021

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.

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Oct 14, 2020

Strategic partnership between Uzbekistan and Korea will be strengthened

Details of the strategic partnership between South Korea and Uzbekistan. Included in the overall plan are details of education reform and collaboration.

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Oct 13, 2020

Hundreds of Thai students rally to demand school reform

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.

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