AACRAO EDGE

The 1st phase of national secondary education exams starts with the 12th grade Portuguese exam. There are 151,863 students registered to take 246,499 tests in this 1st phase. The second phases of national secondary education exams will start in a few months.

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Dec 3, 2021

Dozens of Hong Kong schools hit by falling enrolment face ‘inevitable’ closures as 40,000 families leave city

Dozens of Hong Kong primary and secondary schools face closure as a result of falling enrolment, a situation made worse by the departure of about 40,000 families who emigrated over the past year, according to the head of the city’s biggest pro-establishment education group.

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Dec 3, 2021

Hong Kong pupils ‘can get full marks’ for national security law questions under new marking scheme

Marking guidelines for the revamped subject say candidates can get full marks if their answers mention positive impact of law on city and cite government data in support

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Dec 2, 2021

A new national curriculum sparks a backlash in Pakistan

Teachers and parents worry that English-language skills are being replaced by religious content.

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Dec 1, 2021

Maintenance of Tunisia national exam calendars in the governorates declared to be clusters

The Tunisia national examinations are continuing, therefore, normally including in the governorates declared clusters. The written exams for the first day of the main session of the Baccalaureate for the year 2021 kick off.

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Dec 1, 2021

Bangladesh UG Exam Results Delay A Roadblock In PG Admissions

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has written to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking his personal intervention for immediate furnishing of provisional final semester result or mark sheet for Under-Graduate (UG) students in Odisha.

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Nov 30, 2021

Public sector high school students are about to start accelerated English classes virtually in El Salvador

The educational authorities assure that they have already signed an agreement with the platform provider Platzi and that they will withdraw “full English” students in 12 months.

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Nov 29, 2021

South Africa’s new school calendars

The Department of Basic Education has gazetted the proposed school calendar for the 2023 academic year for comment and confirmed the school calendar for the 2022 school year.

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Nov 29, 2021

Grade improvements will replace internal rankings for Portugal Secondary schools

11th graders cannot yet enroll for improvement as they do not yet have an internal classification given by the schools. The improvements will only count towards the average admission to Higher Education and will replace the internal rankings.

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Nov 26, 2021

20,000 students are without reporting to the El Salvador public education system

The official pointed out that they have also identified that 22,000 students who were cared for in private schools migrated this year to the public educational service. The authorities have not yet spoken of school dropouts, as they are confident that the school children will return.

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