{"id":43953,"date":"2021-07-20T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ordinary-level-senior-six-finalists-begin-national-exams-amidst-tight-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T09:01:02","slug":"ordinary-level-senior-six-finalists-begin-national-exams-amidst-tight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ordinary-level-senior-six-finalists-begin-national-exams-amidst-tight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary level, senior six finalists begin national exams amidst tight COVID-19 containment measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 195,000 students are sitting for this year\u2019s ordinary level and senior six national exams that kicked off countrywide on Tuesday 20th July 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>These include 122,000 from ordinary level, over 50,000 are completing senior six excluding 22,000 finalists from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).  <\/p>\n<p>The National Examinations and Schools Inspection Authority (NESA) has revealed that 20 of 106 students who tested positive for COVID-19 are from the City of Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The Director General of NESA, Dr. Bahati Bernard has said that these students are receiving special assistance to sit for exams in designated isolation rooms.   <\/p>\n<p>He further stated that transport arrangement for these students from home to examination centers and vice versa has been put in place to ensure they don\u2019t miss exams.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made possible efforts to ensure no student misses exams because he\/she is COVID-19 positive.  We issued guidelines to be respected as we did previously,\u201d said Dr. Bahati.  <\/p>\n<p>Apart from COVID-19 positive students, NESA has explained that other candidates are also facilitated to adhere to instituted measures to prevent spread of the virus.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38943 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_nesa_dr_bahati_bernard_yavuze_ko_abarwaye_covid-19_bashyiriweho_uburyo_bwo_gufashwa.jpg\" alt=\"The Director General of NESA, Dr. Bahati Bernard has said that COVID-19 positive students are receiving special assistance to sit for exams. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ministry of Education has said that 106 of students who began ordinary level and senior six national exams today are COVID-19 patients who are receiving special assistance.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43953"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43953"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}