Academic-year

A total of 422,905 students who failed in one or two subjects in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will get another opportunity to sit for the exams. The Ministry of Education is planning to hold the examinations within a month. The decision has been taken considering the need to ensure that students do not lose another year of their academic lives. According to data from the Ministry of Education, 298,040 students failed in one subject in this year’s HSC...

The government has reversed its earlier decision to admit students to government and private schools through admission tests instead of lotteries. Starting from the 2027 academic year, no admission test will be held for first grade. Instead, students will be admitted to class one through a lottery. The Ministry of Education announced the decision in a notice on Thursday afternoon. The notice said students will be admitted to all other grades of primary and secondary schools through admis...