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The Council of Ministers approved a bill that modifies the text of article (28) of the Education Law promulgated by Law No. 139 of 1981, on the regulation of general secondary exams, and the amendment establishes that “ perform evaluation exams from which the total grades of the students of the general secondary stage are calculated for the three years provided for in article (23) of this law at the end of each academic year of those years, and the total of the student in the general secondary stage is calculated on the basis of the total obtained in the three years for all the times he took the exam in each academic year, and the student has the right to take the exam more than once to choose The result is you want to be counted as a group.
The amendments also stipulated that “the exam will be conducted for the first time in every year of secondary school at no cost, and the Minister of Education and Technical Education, upon approval of the Supreme Council of Pre-University Education, will issue a decision to determine the percentages of cumulative total of the three years, and the maximum total for which the student is calculated. .
«In addition to the articles of the Education Law promulgated by Law N ° 139 of 1981, new articles are added in numbers (28 bis), (28 bis A), (28 bis B) and (28 bis C), which establish that “The exams will be carried out electronically or on paper. And it is allowed to divide the students of each subject into multiple groups, so that each of them is examined separately, at different times and according to different models, as long as they are equal in degree of difficulty, so that the measurement of your educational level.
It is also permissible to establish modern, innovative and universally used assessment bases and methods that are among the students’ assessment elements next to the exams, and their scores are included in a certain percentage within the components of the total calculated for students for each academic year separately, and a decision to regulate all this is issued by the Minister of Education and Technical Education, after approval by the Council. Higher education for pre-university students ».
The articles that have been added also stipulate that “The Minister of Education and Technical Education, prior approval of the Supreme Council of Pre-university Education, issues a decision that determines the subjects in which the exams are taken, the number of times a student can enter the exam, the exam system and the determination of the minor and major extremes of the grades of the subjects, The grades that are counted in the additional times of taking the exam, as well as determining the categories of the fee, which do not exceed 5,000 pounds, and exemption cases thereof.
According to the added subjects, the students of the scientific department take scientific subjects, and the students of the literary department, in addition to the compulsory subjects for the two departments, and the Minister of Education and Technical Education, prior approval of the Higher Council of Pre-university Education , determines the plans and curricula, and the controls and conditions to apply them, provided that said plans are based on The curricula refer to the latest technologies and means of modern technology, in line with modern methods and used worldwide , and the rules for stopping the registration and organizing the acceptance of excuses are determined by a decision of the Minister of Education and Technical Education.
The amended articles also stipulate that “if a student fails one or two subjects in most general and specialized subjects after exhausting the permissible number of times to enter the exam in each academic year, he is charged with the failure, transferred to the following year and reexamined with New Year’s students, as well as. You can take exams from abroad, in accordance with the regulations issued by decision of the Minister of Education and Technical Education.
“Any student who has failed in one or two subjects in most general and specialized subjects, after exhausting the number of times to enter the exam in the third grade, has the right to re-test in the failed only once in the year next, and then the exam is taken from abroad for a period of only two years ”.
“This law will enter into force as of the day following its publication date, with the exception of article (28), which will be effective as of the next academic year 2021-2022, with any provision that contradicts its provisions being repealed.
Dr. Tarek Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, explained that the amendments made to the education law are framed within the framework of achieving the strategic plan for sustainable development (Egypt Vision 2030), which is based on providing education to all students without discrimination, in addition to improving the quality of the educational system and its products. In line with international regulations, as well as to enhance competitiveness and improve educational results, especially the baccalaureate stage, so the development of this stage in terms of study plans and examination methods was an urgent matter, necessary and inevitable, based on the importance of qualifying students of that stage to compete in global labor markets.
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