Hong Kong’s biggest international school group has joined thousands of students worldwide in demanding that the International Baccalaureate explain poorer-than-expected grades based on schoolwork, after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of written examinations. The English Schools Foundation (ESF) confirmed on Friday that some of its seven secondary schools had asked the Swiss-based organisation that runs the …

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EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ANAHITA NAGPAL fears her plans to start training this fall to be a doctor have been derailed by a statistical model. Nagpal, who lives in Göttingen, Germany, had been offered a premed place and scholarship at NYU. Her acceptance was dependent on her results in the International Baccalaureate diploma, a two-year high school program recognized …

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The International Baccalaureate (IB) program is highly respected. It is known for rigorous courses during high school. Students take an exam to receive their final grades. Nearly 175,000 students around the world took exams this year, 89,000 of them in the U.S., most of them at special high schools. The students — in the U.S. …

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The government is considering delaying the 2021 summer exams in England in order to allow for additional teaching time to make up for lessons lost to school closures during the pandemic. The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, told MPs that the government would be consulting with the exams regulator, Ofqual, about moving exams back to give pupils more …

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round the world, countries are debating what to do about schools during a pandemic. In many places, they\’ve been shut. In some they\’ve reopened. Hong Kong offers a cautionary tale of how difficult these decisions can be. Schoolchildren were sent home at the end of January as the first wave of the outbreak began, originating …

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LAKEVILLE — Hotchkiss School sophomore Arhan Chhabra knows education is a tool everyone should have. After a trip to India in 2019, this technology-inspired 15-year-old created an online platform with a global reach to help give education to students with potential, but no resources. And after the coronavirus pandemic hit his home country of Hong …

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