April 30: Consultation on the 2024/5 GEM Report hosted by the German Commission for UNESCO May 2: Dialogue with International Organization of Employers policy working group on Employment, Skills and Digitalization May 7: Launch of the 2024 Spotlight Report on universal basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa: Learning Counts at the Conference of…
In Russia, discussions about canceling the Unified State Exam occur in public with a frequency of several months. The most recent initiative came from a group of LDPR deputies, who drafted a relevant bill. Pyotr Tolstoy, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, referred to the exam as a “special police operation on children” and claimed that both teachers and parents opposed it. Viktor Alexandrovich Bolotov, one of the creators of the exam concept, former head of Rosobrnadzor, professor at the Higher School of Economics, and academician…