Mozambique: Students Force Education Ministry to Back Down

Maputo — Mozambican secondary school students on Friday forced the Education Ministry to back down on its plans to change the assessment model for this year.

On Thursday the Ministry announced that it was scrapping the longstanding scheme under which students in 10th and 12th grades could be excused from taking end of year exams, if their work during the year was good enough.

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