DUBAI: Elated students took to Lebanon’s streets to celebrate after the cabinet agreed to exempt them from official exams on Thursday.
Official Baccalaureate exams were cancelled, ministers said, “due to the exceptional circumstances and difficult security conditions the country is facing”.
The decision came after education minister Rima Karami had previously insisted students carry on as normal, dates unchanged despite the ongoing hostilities and the death of university student Theodosia James Karam and her brother and father.
The three had been killed in an airstrike sparking a wave of outrage as protesters damnded the exams be put on hold.
The Minister of Education later confirmed in a statement on Thursday that the Cabinet had “decided to exempt students from official baccalaureate exams for the school certificate and the technical baccalaureate, relying instead on school grades.”
