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Nigeria’s ‘miracle examination centres’ undermine education: how to stop the rot

Top-down enforcement of rules is not working; it has to be in people’s own interests to behave ethically.
The biggest problem with supplementary examinations is the punitive nature of the assessment. Shutterstock

Why we need to rethink supplementary examinations

In Australian schools, assessment drives learning, but there are better models to consider than the current system of supplementary examinations.
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How to get teenagers to revise for exams during the holidays

Revising for exams is a necessary evil. Ever since written university exams were first set in England by the Cambridge chemist William Farrish in about 1792, students have struggled to revise. And with…

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