BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Education Minister Elias Bou Saab decided Saturday to issue passing certificates to thousands of students who took official exams, after efforts failed to convince teachers to back down on their boycott of correcting the tests.
“[I decided] to give those who took the exams a certificate that would allow their entry into colleges,” Bou Saab told reporters at a news conference, saying such a move was his last resort to safeguard the school year.
Lebanon has not had to resort to issuing passing certificates in lieu of grading the exams since the end of the Civil War in 1990.
“The identification cards students used to enter exam rooms and take the tests will be used as an affidavit as proof of completion,” he said, adding that an additional official certificate would be issued at a later stage.
“To the students, I say you have now passed your exams. Congratulations, but I had hoped the exams would be corrected ... your teachers and the unions could not help you in correcting your exams.”
Minutes before Bou Saab’s news conference, the Union Coordination Committee, which represents civil servants and teachers, said it remained adamant on its boycott until the salary scale draft law was approved by Parliament.
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