المملكة: Education adopts new governance controls: preventing teachers from participating in their relatives’ examination committees

The Ministry of Education approved a new and detailed administrative structure to manage the final exams file, aiming to govern educational processes and ensure the highest quality Standards of integrity and operational efficiency, through a precise distribution of tasks that prevents conflicts of interest and ends duplication of roles within schools.

Academic Achievement Committee

In its new guide, the Ministry adopted a hierarchical administrative model that begins with the “Academic Achievement Committee” as the highest supervisory body led by the school principal, to ensure that the process proceeds in accordance with regulations.

From this central committee emerge four specialized executive arms, responsible for managing all logistical and technical aspects. And the procedural procedures for exams are meticulous to ensure fairness.

The manual assigned the tasks of the “Control and Discipline Committee” to an agent School Affairs, to fully supervise the logistical operations preceding and following the test.

Preparing the halls and holding the tests

The tasks of this committee include preparing the halls, preparing seating numbers, ensuring that the walls are free of any educational aids, all the way to receiving the answer sheets and storing them in a safe place.

At the time of the test, the role of the “Supervision and Observation Committee”, headed by the Vice Dean for Student Affairs, takes center stage to manage the field and control order inside the halls.

/>This committee manages Observers’ schedules, supervising the opening of question envelopes, following up on students’ entry and exit, monitoring cases of absence, and issuing reports of official violations.

At the post-performance stage, the tasks of the “Correction, Review and Audit Committee” begin, headed by the Undersecretary for Educational Affairs, to supervise the delivery of answer sheets to the correctors, attached to the approved solution models.

This committee works to follow up on the accuracy of the correction and review to ensure that each student gets his full right without any errors in the test. Estimation.

Monitoring Committee and Results Production

The process concludes with the “Monitoring and Results Production Committee,” which is also headed by the Undersecretary for Educational Affairs, which is responsible for entering the grades into the electronic systems and extracting the preliminary results.

The committee prints and saves the final approved “whitened” copies, while conducting a final audit of the students’ data to ensure that they are completely consistent with the official documents.

To ensure the utmost degree of transparency, the Ministry has imposed a strict control that prevents conflicts of interest, as the system is required to reassign any Member of committees with tasks far from the class in which one of his first-degree relatives is studying.

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