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Greece establishing 3,448 new Integration Departments from Elementary to High School

September 29, 2025

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a significant strengthening of special educational support structures , speaking of the largest program to develop Integration Departments in the history of the Greek educational system.

NECO releases 2025 SSCE results, records 60% pass rate

September 22, 2025

The National Examinations Council has released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE internal) results, 54 days after the last written paper.

New Sweden grading system – risk that students choose grades over knowledge

September 19, 2025

Starting this fall, the grading system will change for everyone who begins studying at the upper secondary level.

700,000 GCSE pupils without a specialist physics teacher, report suggests

September 18, 2025

Just 16% of total teaching hours for combined science are provided by a physics teacher with a post-A-level qualification, the analysis found.

Uzbekistan to Transition to 12-Year School System

September 17, 2025

Uzbekistan is preparing to transition to a 12-year general education system, Deputy Minister of Preschool and School Education Sardor Radjabov announced in an interview with Uzbekistan-24. The change will incorporate preparatory classes into formal education, extending schooling from the current 11 years to 12.

The number of complaints in CZ education is growing

September 16, 2025

The number of complaints about schools is growing in the Czech Republic. From last September to the end of March this year, the Czech School Inspectorate registered almost a thousand of them. This is almost the same number as for the entire previous school year. The number of teachers dissatisfied with school management is also growing.

After the Sweden national test failure – 82 million distributed

September 12, 2025

The failure of the digital national exams will be costly. 82 million in city grants will be distributed fairly between the schools. This is how much the municipalities in northeastern Skåne will receive.

The Angola national exam correction system failed most high school students with good grades throughout the year

September 11, 2025

The majority of students in the second cycle of secondary education (formerly high school), with good grades and good academic performance, failed the new system of correction of national exams, adopted by the Ministry of Education (MED), in the current academic year 2024-25.

The second phase of access to Portugal Higher Education ended on Wednesday with 17 thousand candidates

September 10, 2025

More than 17,000 young people applied for the second phase of the national competition for access to higher education, which ended on Wednesday, 2,696 fewer applicants than last year.

Five key takeaways from this year's GCSE results

September 09, 2025

More than 600,000 teenagers have been opening GCSE and other Level 2 results. Here are the top takeaways.

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