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AMID OFFICIAL BLAME SHIFTING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BECOME VICTIMS

Feb 4 , 2023.

Officials are toiling to radically overhaul the education system after experiencing a "shock" from a minuscule number of 12th-grade students passing the average grade to make it to college. Amid official blaming shifting, the students become victims of the unfortunate timing. The stringent measures taken by officials of the Ministry of Education to tighten exam leaks and cheating have revealed an unprecedented outcome of 3.3pc of students passing the school leaving exams. The fate of over half a million students is on the "remedial exams"; the rest face the grim risk of joining the vast pool of the unemployed.


PUBLISHED ON Feb 04,2023 [ VOL 23 , NO 1188]


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