Teachers to Resume Correction of Official Exams
The Syndicate Coordination Committee announced on Thursday the resumption of the official exams correction for grades 12 and 9 after a series of negotiation with the cabinet.
The SCC said that teachers are expected to start issuing the results starting Saturday.
Earlier, head of the private schools teachers association Nehme Mahfoud said in comments to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) that the results of the Life Science and General sections will be issued on Saturday or Sunday while the results of the Humanities and Socio-Economics sections are to be issued on Monday.
The decision comes in light of the cabinet’s approval to issue the new salaries scale for the public sector by the end of August.
The SCC’s suspension of the exams correction had left around 100,000 students in disarray including those who are awaiting the results to decide on their university major.
The SCC, a coalition of private and public school teachers and public sector employees, recently staged a nation-wide protest and decided to boycott the correction of official exams over the government’s failure to include the new salaries scale in the state budget.
The cabinet argues that any new increase on wages would affect the state’s treasury, saying that it is searching for new resources to finance the boost in salaries.
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