Written by Bahaa Al-Ramli

Translated by Assaad Maalouf

 

 The first round of academic official exams will start on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, on the intermediate scholastic level, and will last till June 11. The Education Ministry, with all its departments in Beirut and other Lebanese regions, is holding a school-related workshop to help establish this scholastic event; educationally, administratively and securely.

 

The director general of said ministry, Fady Yaraq, averred, in an interview with the National News Agency, the accomplishment of required procedures to help satisfy logistic and administrative demands for launching these exams in which 102783 intermediate and secondary student candidates stood, saying that final results will be released on the last day of June.

 

As to official exams for the secondary school level, these will begin on Monday, June 13, 2011, and will last until June 18.

 

All candidates are distributed over 399 examination centers across different Lebanese regions. It is to note that these centers are located in Beirut and some of them are fully equipped, especially for handicapped and sick persons, as Yaraq clarified.

 

And to follow up the course line of these exams, Yaraq said the ministry has set an operation Chamber comprised of Internal Security Forces members and Education Ministry employees. The task of this Chamber is to look into every detail of the course and every complaint or notice raised by any person. And the Educational Central Inspection, affiliated with the ministry, is always ready to address these complaints and to punish everyone cheating during the exam. Yaraq also spoke of ameliorating the condition of exams correction room.

 

He also disclosed that these exams will be performed for the first time outside Lebanon, in Doha, in response to Minister Hassan Mneimneh's initiative. This is a typically new experience which hopefully will reduce the cost of Lebanese students’ transportation into Lebanon, and will simultaneously exhibit the educational presence of Lebanon in other countries. After all, as Yaraq indicated, there are around 11 Lebanese schools in the world working within the Lebanese educational system.