On the sidelines of his visit today to the Elenion Primary School, where the "Cook and Offer" programme is being implemented, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Mr. Prodromos Prodromou responded to 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 question is," he added, "how to organise in the most appropriate and adapted way the assessment that should be in the system. So for us there is no dilemma whether there will be assessment or not," 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 examinations, the subjects to be examined in high school can be three. Such solutions will be discussed - just as the philosophy of assessment as a whole will be discussed - because the Ministry has never asked for too many exams. If there are too many tests, where there are, and the children and parents are right, it is a dysfunction."
Prodromou, 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 had to be assessed and will appreciate it."
"In the next few days," Mr. Prodromou, "we will inform the educational organizations about the quality control and the survey conducted at the Ministry of Education, regarding the procedures of the exams so far, and we will also discuss with them various issues related to their improvement, and then we will also discuss with the organized parents."
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