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On the sidelines of his visit today to the Elenio Primary School, where the "Cook and Offer" programme is being implemented, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Mr. Prodromos Prodromou answered a question about yesterday's protest march for the four-year exams
Specifically, Mr Prodromou said: "In school there must be assessment. Assessment is needed so that the school can bring out values. If there is no assessment then we cannot expect to have values in our school."
"The issue," he added, "is how to organise in the most appropriate and adapted way the assessment that must be in the system. So for us there is no dilemma whether or not there will be assessment," Prodromou said, noting that "there is a view in some people that it would be better not to have assessment. This logic of levelling is not acceptable."
"We have some conclusions from our experience so far," the Minister of Education pointed out, adding that "we have already oriented ourselves and it is feasible to have fewer examinations, for example, instead of four or five subjects in high school, there can be three. Such solutions will be discussed - as the philosophy of assessment as a whole will be discussed - because at no time has the ministry asked for too many exams If there are too many exams, where there are exams and the children and parents are right, it is a dysfunction."
"We need to correct these wrongs," Prodromou said, noting that "not having exams is not the cure, as I hear some people say, and I am sure that the children, who are complaining, when they grow up will understand why they should be assessed and will appreciate it."
"In the coming days," Prodromou concluded, "we will inform the educational organizations about the quality control and the survey conducted at the Ministry of Education about the procedures of the examinations so far, and we will also discuss with them various issues concerning their improvement, and then we will also discuss with the organized parents."
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