Under the new grading mechanism for 9th-grade science exams, a student can receive up to 8 out of 20 points simply for participating in group work. This assessment approach raises questions: how are t...
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The Golden Globe Foundation has elected Armenian producer, journalist and television host Raffi Boghosian as President of its Board of Directors. Boghosian announced the news on his Instagram page. “I...
Some European countries may extend school summer holidays amid scorching heat, Euronews writes. The length of school summer holidays can vary significantly across Europe, according to Eurydice, the Eu...
India’s PM Narendra Modi announced on Sunday the creation of a task force headed by tech entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani to overhaul India’s examination system, following days of youth protests about e...
Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned following weeks of mass protests and mounting political pressure, Al Jazeera writes. The unrest was triggered by the leak of examination paper...
Two Chinese academics have won the world’s top prize for mathematics for the first time, the BBC writes. Chinese mathematicians Hong Wang and Yu Deng won alongside John Pardon from the US and Jacon Ts...
An Amazon delivery driver who earned around £2.4 million (more than $3.1 million) in the UK by taking exams on behalf of students has been sentenced to three years in prison, the Daily Mail reports. A...
In schools in Latvia, students have been banned from speaking Russian even in corridors during free time, RIA Novosti writes. Alexey Roslikov, a member of the Riga City Council, said that according to...
US and Israeli attacks on Iran have so far killed a total of 250 teachers and students, Al Jazeera writes, citing the head of the Iranian Ministry of Education’s public relations centre. Attacks have ...
No school has received fewer textbooks than required, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan said at a press conference on Tuesday, responding to a question from ABC Medi...
Education at Georgia’s public universities will be free for all students starting next year, 1tv.ge. reports, citing Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. Kobakhidze described the move as a significant re...
A student at a school in İzmir in Western Turkey was arrested after a video filmed to a Kurdish song, Ermenihaber reports. The video, in which the detainee filmed his classmates dancing a national dan...
