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Bored students are now petitioning Shafqat jaani to cancel the CIE exams
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Monday Mar 15, 2021
Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood may already be regretting his decision to shut schools and have students sit out the fresh wave of coronavirus cases at home they re now asking him to have the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) for this year cancelled as well.
With the #cancelcieeams2021 trend racking up more than 40 thousand tweets on Twitter by early Monday evening, Pakistani students started piling the pressure on their beloved Shafqat
jaani to listen to their demands.
Some took the aggressive route.
Others went for the emotional blackmailing strategy.
As the UK enters another strict lockdown and British schools close once again due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, it has been announced that UK A-Levels and GCSE examinations will not take place in Summer 2021.
The majority of private-school pupils in Dubai study a UK curriculum, with 106,773 students learning under the British system, followed by 73,990 students studying the Indian curriculum, according to 2020 Knowledge and human Development Authority (KHDA) figures.
Although schools remain open in the UAE, students and parents in the emirates’ British-curriculum schools have been left reeling by the question mark that this news places over their own academic futures.