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. …
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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The number of Hong Kong students bagging perfect scores in the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams dropped by nearly a third to 23 this year, with grading based on schoolwork after written tests were cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was down from last year’s 34, despite the number of local candidates increasing slightly from 2,284 …
A prestigious international school in Hong Kong has taken legal action in a bid to remove a “discriminatory” article in its regulations that requires all elected board directors to be fluent German speakers, a rule that has existed for more than 15 years. Another extensive hearing would take place this week, following one in May, …
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 …
5月24日，加拿大菲沙研究所公布2020年安省中學成績排行榜。 菲沙研究所根據多個指標給學校打分，其中包括9年級學生的數學成績、英文成績、男女學生之間的成績差異、未達標的學生比例、學校發展趨勢。得分越高的學校，排名越高。 香港加拿大國際學校多年來第一次參加安省統一考試，就在安省739所中學中脫穎而出，以9.3分的成績在整個安省中學當中排第4。 https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/20/5/24/n12133808.htm
本港不少國際學校除了收取學費外，亦會要求家長購買債券，或支付提名權、工程費用等以籌集資金。立法會教育事務委員會(教委會)今日開會，教育局局長楊潤雄指，下學年起會要求所有私立和國際學校的其他收費向教育局申請，加強規管。 http://www.orangenews.hk/news/system/2020/06/05/010151502.shtml
受到新冠肺炎疫情影響，培生早前宣布取消本年五月至六月本港舉辦國際普通中學教育文憑（IGCSE）和國際高級程度會考（IAL）等考試。培生昨日宣布，今年秋季特別「加開」考試，增設一次的IGCSE考試，同時舉辦IAL數個科目考試，包括原定於5或6月最後一次評估的科目。 https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/479262/%E6%96%B0%E5%86%A0%E8%82%BA%E7%82%8E-%E5%9F%B9%E7%94%9F%E5%AE%A3%E5%B8%83%E7%A7%8B%E5%AD%A3%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5-%E5%8A%A0%E9%96%8B-igcse%E8%80%83%E8%A9%A6
The University of California will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements through 2024 and eliminate them for California residents after that, a landmark decision by the prestigious university system. Critics of the standardized tests have long argued they disadvantage students of color and those from low-income families because test questions often contain …
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