August 13, 2025
Regulator for England withdraws statistics for students receiving assistance in A-Level and GCSE exams going back to 2014
August 12, 2025
The 2025 upper secondary school admissions show a very strong result for Stockholm's municipal upper secondary schools. Of the 6,657 places offered, only 21 are still available, a clear sign of the great interest from the city's ninth graders.
August 11, 2025
South Korea’s National Assembly passed a Bill on Aug 4 stripping artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks of their legal status as official teaching materials, dealing a heavy blow to the previous Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s flagship education reform project.
August 08, 2025
A D grade in an ATAR subject will count towards meeting WACE requirements, under new reforms. The move is aimed at encouraging students to tackle harder subjects.
August 07, 2025
The trend is clear, and historic: the number of applications to start vocational programs is increasing significantly. At the same time, applications for university preparatory programs are declining significantly, according to recent figures from Statistics Sweden.
August 06, 2025
China said on Aug 5 it would introduce free pre-school education from the autumn, as the world’s second most populous nation seeks to boost childbirth in the face of a looming demographic crisis.
August 06, 2025
South Korea will begin offering free education and childcare to all five-year-olds by subsidising pre-school institutions from July, marking a significant step in the country’s plan to make pre-schoolers’ education universally accessible by 2027.
August 01, 2025
WA's School Curriculum and Standards Authority recently notified schools a new Latin course would be available for them to offer from next year.
July 31, 2025
The results of the first phase of the national secondary school exams were announced.
July 30, 2025
Hong Kong is attracting global STEM talent with increased research funding and a focus on science and technology. Geopolitical tensions and declining research funding in the West are pushing mainland China-born academics to Hong Kong. Concerns are rising that an influx of such academics will reduce diversity and hinder long-term innovation in the universities.
July 29, 2025
New laws curbing the use of mobile phones in Finnish schools came into force on Aug 1, ahead of their reopening after the summer holidays.
July 28, 2025
The first WACE-affiliated schools have started operations in Bengaluru and Bidar in Karnataka, with plans to expand to 100 schools across India in the next three years.
July 25, 2025
The Undersecretariat of Higher Education and the DEMRE (Demre) of the University of Chile reported that, preliminary, the attendance rate for the Winter PAES exam was around 91%, considering the mandatory Reading and Mathematical Proficiency 1 (M1) tests. T
July 24, 2025
The most extensive amendment to the School Act, which will affect most children and parents, has also passed the Senate. For example, the school-leaving exam will change, more psychologists will be hired, and distance learning will be possible in secondary schools.
July 23, 2025
Citizenship will now have eight mandatory subjects (up from 17), four of which will be taught in all grades. Fernando Alexandre explained that parents will be consulted by schools regarding the content to be taught in classrooms.
July 22, 2025
Highest success rate through central allocation system attributed to shrinking pupil numbers with 8-year low of 48,011 taking part.
July 21, 2025
More than 42,000 candidates who sat for the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and qualified for entry into university did not apply for placement, raising fresh concerns at the Ministry of Education over the rising numbers of students opting to shun higher education.
July 18, 2025
Structures for the country’s this year’s national examinations are in place, the government says.
July 16, 2025
The national exam season begins with more than 160,000 11th and 12th grade students registered to take the tests that allow them to complete secondary education and apply for higher education by the end of the month.
July 15, 2025
Number of IB students in the city has jumped nearly 20 per cent over past five years, with more preferring its ‘creative’ curriculum over the DSE