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Plenary session of Congress approves extending the automatic bachelor's degree in Peru until March 2024

January 22, 2024

The deadline for hundreds of thousands of university students in Peru to obtain the automatic baccalaureate expired at the end of December of this year; However, this was voided on the afternoon of Thursday, December 14, after voting in the Plenary Session of the Congress of the Republic on a legislative proposal to extend said period that was about to expire.

Education will review the draft decree of the Baccalaureate curriculum to make it clear that it does not remove Music subjects

January 19, 2024

The Association for Musical Education of Castilla-La Mancha (AldáreaCLM) expressed its rejection of the draft of the decree of organization and curriculum of Baccalaureate, since its wording showed that the subject of music from 1st year of Baccalaureate and the 2nd year of Baccalaureate would be changed.

Colombia Icfes opened registrations for the State test Saber 11 in 2024

January 18, 2024

The Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education - Icfes, opened the registration process for the Saber 11 calendar B, Pre Saber and Validation of the Academic Baccalaureate tests , which will be carried out on site on Sunday, April 7, 2024, under the pencil modality and paper.

Singapore O-Level results: 86.8% score at least 5 passes, higher than previous year

January 17, 2024

About 86.8 per cent of students scored at least five passes at the 2023 GCE O-Level examinations, slightly above the previous year's mark of 86.2 per cent.

PAES Regular 2023 submission process ended completely normally and with 88% attendance

January 16, 2024

According to preliminary data, more than 252 thousand applicants took at least one of the PAES Higher Education Access Tests for admission in 2024. In general terms, “it was a process that was developed in complete tranquility, which demonstrates the great work carried out jointly between the Undersecretary of Higher Education, DEMRE and all the application personnel who participate in the implementation of this test,” said the Undersecretary of Higher Education.

Decline in ATAR Scores Shakes Up University Entry Standards in NSW

January 15, 2024

In a marked shift in Australian education, 2023 has seen a noticeable dip in the University entry scores, or Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), in several courses in New South Wales (NSW). This trend is particularly evident in degrees related to engineering, health science, and mathematics education.

Now even higher correspondence between final grades and results on Sweden national exams within IES

January 12, 2024

IES students show even greater agreement between the final grades and the results on the national exams in the subjects Swedish, Swedish as a second language, mathematics and English. This is evident from the results of the national examinations for grade nine for the academic year 2022/2023.

Release of 2023 Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Level Examination Results and 2024 Joint Admissions Exercise

January 11, 2024

The results of the 2023 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level (GCE O-Level) examination will be released.

Record Number of Private School Students Receive IB Results in Australia

January 09, 2024

The number of private school students receiving their International Baccalaureate (IB) final results has reached a record high. A staggering 739 students marked the culmination of their IB journey on Wednesday, demonstrating an impressive doubling in the candidature over the past decade.

66% of Brazilian students cannot read texts longer than 10 pages; in Chile, there are more than 100

January 08, 2024

Revealed this Wednesday (29), a study thoroughly analyzed microdata from Pisa 2018, an international exam taken by students aged 15 and 16. This analysis is the result of a collaboration between the Center for Research in Education, Interdisciplinarity and Evidence in Educational Debate (Iede) and the reading platform Árvore.

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