The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, adopted the decision of the Priority Committee to vaccinate students aged 16-18 (including 12th grade students, even if they have passed the age of 18).
The Priority Committee held an expert discussion on Thursday, chaired by Dr. Boaz Lev, in which it was recommended that students aged 16-18 be vaccinated.
The professional teams of the Ministries of Health and Education, together with the HMOs, will formulate a logistical plan to promote the vaccination campaign for students, as early as next week. When it comes to a concentrated vaccination in schools or summoning students to the HMOs’ vaccination complexes.
It should be noted that the vaccine, as for the entire population, is not mandatory and what is behind the idea of vaccinating 11th-12th grade students is to allow them to take the matriculation exams.
Keep in mind that Pfizer’s vaccine has been approved by the World Health Organization for ages 16 and up.
Facilitation of the Ministry of Education for matriculation examiners
In preparation for the winter and summer matriculation exams in 1971, the Minister of Education, Yoav Galant, announced yesterday, Thursday, January 21, the changes, adjustments and additional facilitation that he decided to apply to these matriculations.
The facilitations and adjustments are intended, among other things, to address the gaps that students have accumulated due to the prolonged closures due to the outbreak of the corona virus, and are part of the ministry’s learning process on matriculation exams and insights gathered by Education Ministry director Amit Edri. Vocational and matriculation coordinators, teachers and students.
In light of this, the ministry is today issuing a guidance document to schools about the changes, facilitations and additional adjustments.
It should be noted that this is a third round of adjustments, joining those that have already been given before and during the current school year.
Adjustments given to schools will include:
1. Extra time in all tests
Students tested in all subjects will receive a 25% extra time.
2. The April winter date will also be a date for improving the score
Students will be able to distinguish between the two winter dates in the same questionnaire, so that the date of February will be the first date and the date of April will be the second date for improving grades. The higher of the two scores is the one that will be taken into account. This option is open to all schools and students to choose from.
3. Additional dates will be given for an oral exam in English Winter 5741
Along with the original date of the exam, which is expected to take place between the dates
January 24, 21 to January 28, 211, additional dates will be available to schools.
The additional dates:
• From 15.2.2021 until 18.2.2021 (Monday-Thursday)
• From 14.3.2020 to 18.3.2021 (Sundays-Thursdays)
4. Elimination of the Corona SCD mechanism and its conversion into control processes, professional accompaniment and guidance for schools
As part of the examination outline for the academic year 2021, schools are given the opportunity to report school evaluation scores from external matriculation converters.
5. Also in the next school year, 5752, 11th grade students today, will be examined in 5 external subjects in accordance with the outline of the 2007 matriculation exams.
The following is a link to this outline found on the “Learning with Confidence” website:
https://covid.education.gov.
6. Facilitation of the mother tongue for all sectors, matriculation, winter 5771 and summer, 2010A
• Hebrew speakers:
In the expression and comprehension chapter – the student will be required to merge two texts instead of three.
In the syntax or form theory section, it will be possible to accumulate points and increase the score of the chapter.
• In the Druze sector: adjustments to the rules of response, additional choice for students, and accumulation of points in the comprehension section.
• In the Arab sector: adjustments of the response laws, additional choice for students and accumulation in the part of grammar and comprehension.
7. Exclusion of format exams and matriculation of 11th-12th grade students in the closure regulations
In order to allow the exams to take place, the format and matriculation exams were excluded from the closure regulations – the students taking the exams will be able to come to the schools to take the exam.
8. Mathematics, Scientific and Technological Subjects – Summer Matriculation 5741
As for the summer matriculation exams in the mathematics and science subjects (including: physics, chemistry, biology and computer science) and the technological subjects, the ministry will issue an update on the adjustments upon the return of the schools to physical studies. In this regard, it should be noted that the decision was made in light of the request of the teachers and subject coordinators, according to which upon the return of the students to the schools, they will be able to monitor the learning gaps. In accordance with this monitoring, a decision will be made on the nature of the adjustments that will be made in these subjects in preparation for the summer matriculation exams in 1971.
9. Reducing the extent of social involvement
Due to the restrictions imposed following the corona virus, 90 hours of social involvement will be required instead of 146 hours in order to be eligible for a matriculation certificate.
10. Return of the compensation mechanism (compensation)
It was decided to retroactively apply the compensation rules to graduates of 2020 (20) as well as to graduates of 5721 (2021). Accordingly, an additional 867 students will be eligible for the matriculation certificate. The eligibility of the relevant students will be updated in the office systems and in the school systems (details about the compensation mechanism in the attached appendix).