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2026 Joint Admissions Exercise posting results to be released on Feb 3

January 27, 2026

The posting results for the 2026 Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE) will be released. Applicants posted to polytechnics or Institutes of Education (ITE) will receive their enrolment details via email by end-February.

Registration opens for GCE ‘O’ Level and IGCSE Results in Borneo

January 23, 2026

The Ministry of Education has announced that registration to receive Brunei-Cambridge GCE‘O’ Level and International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) October/November 2025 examination results via Short Messaging Service (SMS) will open on Wednesday, January 21.

Release of 2025 Singapore-Cambridge GCE N(A)- & N(T)-Level Examination Results 2025

January 22, 2026

The results of the 2025 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Normal (Academic)-[N(A)] and Normal (Technical)-[N(T)] Level Examinations will be released.

Alberta cancels January provincial exams due to time lost during teachers strike

January 21, 2026

High school students in Alberta will not be writing their provincial diploma exams in January, but can take them in April or June if they choose.

Swapping pens for code: Welcome to the newest HSC exam

January 20, 2026

Computers have been around for as long as the HSC, but it’s taken until 2025 for the first software engineering exam to go entirely online. This year, students were asked to write and run complex computer codes and use “pseudocode” to write an algorithm, all tasks that would have been impossible in a handwritten test.

Tawjihi supplementary exam results to be announced in February

January 13, 2026

The Director of the Examinations and Tests Department at the Ministry of Education stated that the results of the supplementary exams of Tawjihi (the general secondary education certificate examination) are expected to be announced in the first half of February.

Big failure with Digital exams in Sweden

January 13, 2026

150 to 200 different initiatives distributed around the agency – without direct oversight. That is the conclusion of the auditing firm Azets after reviewing the project with the digital national exams – on behalf of the National Agency for Education.

FUEP raises alarm over fake NCE certificates in circulation

January 09, 2026

The Federal University of Education Pankshin, FUEP, in Plateau, has raised alarm over the rate of fake National Certificate of Education, NCE, of the institution in circulation.

HSC exams to held from from February 19 to March 2

January 07, 2026

The Board of Secondary Examination (BSE) on Friday announced the detailed timetable for annual High School Certificate (HSC), Madhyama and State Open School Certificate (SOSC) examinations-2026, scheduled to be conducted simultaneously from February 19 to March 2.

Preparing to Hold the Supplementary Tawjihi Exam with 131,000 Participants

January 06, 2026

The Ministry of Education has finalized its preparations for the General Secondary Education Certificate exam for the year 2025/ the supplementary exam, which will begin its first session next Saturday, the twenty-seventh of this month, and will end on Saturday, the seventeenth of January next year.

House of Representatives Introduces Federal Colleges of Education Act Amendment Bill

January 05, 2026

With this amendment bill, there’s a renewed focus on strengthening the educational infrastructure and ensuring that more students have access to higher education opportunities.

Academic fraud leads to cancellation of exams

January 02, 2026

The Mozambican Education Ministry has canceled the ninth grade examinations in Physics, Chemistry, English and History because of academic fraud.

Guidelines for 2026 EJU

January 01, 2026

The notification date of 2026 EJU 2nd session score reports will be moved up by one day compared to 2025 EJU. Increase examination fees for Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Mongolia. Revised syllabus for Science, Japan and the World, and Mathematics will be applied from 2026 EJU 1st Session.

FG commended for approving College of Education to run degree programmes

January 01, 2026

Federal government commended for allowing College of Education to run degree programmes alongside with the training of National Certificate of Education (NCE) teachers.

Education publishes the modification of the Baccalaureate decree that merges science subjects into 1st year

December 30, 2025

The changes will not affect students taking the university entrance exams.

Digital national exams halted by Sweden government

December 29, 2025

Sweden's Teachers' Association has demanded that the government stop the digital national exams. The announcement came today. – The latest tests show that they clearly do not work, says Lotta Edholm (L), Minister of Upper Secondary Education, Higher Education and Research, to Sveriges Radio Ekot.

Ministry of Education Sets Up 1,079 Electronic Labs for Tawjihi Exams During the Year

December 25, 2025

During the first year of the government of Jafar Hassan, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education completed numerous educational and developmental projects, including building new schools, upgrading educational facilities, and improving services across governorates.

Upcoming Grade 9 and 12 Alberta provincial exams cancelled

December 24, 2025

Alberta students in Grade 12 will not have to take their diploma exams this January. Similarly, Grade 9 students will not have to take their upcoming Provincial Achievement Test after the province announced it was canceling the examinations.

Manitoba universities cancel classes, postpone exams due to blizzard

December 23, 2025

Multiple Manitoba universities and colleges have closed their doors or rescheduled exams due to the blizzard slamming the province.

Digital national exams are cancelled in Sweden – these exams are affected

December 22, 2025

National tests in English, Swedish and Swedish as a second language will be conducted with substitute tests, instead of in the digital test platform, the Swedish National Agency for Education announces.

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