Syrian Ministry of Education Lets Self-Administration Students Take General Certificate Exams in 2025-2027

Damascus – SANA said the Syrian Ministry of Education issued a decision allowing students who previously studied under the 'Self-Administration' curricula to sit the general certificate examinations for the two stages of the General Secondary Education and Basic Education, but only during the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years.

“Syrian Minister of Education Muhammad Abdul Rahman Turko issued a decision allowing students who previously studied under the 'Self-Administration' curricula to sit for the general certificate examinations using those same curricula, limited to the current and the next two academic years”

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SANA said the decision, a copy of which it received today, Friday, is based on the provisions of Law No. 31 for the year 2024 and is tied to conditions and legal positions of students in the eastern provinces.

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SANA added that certificates previously granted by the 'Self-Administration' will be recognized in accordance with procedures and instructions in force and approved by the Ministry of Education.

Rudaw Digital reported the ministry announced the same allowance for students in the north and east of Syria to apply for the general certificate examinations according to the curricula they studied during the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years.

Rudaw Digital said the decision came pursuant to Resolution No. 1617/943 issued on June 17, 2026, and quoted Syrian Minister of Education Mohammad Abdul Rahman Turko saying the ministry continues to implement the educational merger plan in the eastern provinces within the framework of the unified Syrian national curriculum.

Rudaw Digital reported that the ministry has recently begun merging about 38,000 teachers who were working within autonomous administration institutions previously, and it has also opened 2,350 schools applying the unified Syrian government curriculum since the start of the second semester of the current year.

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Al-Jazeera Net said Turko issued a decision allowing students who previously studied under the 'Self-Administration' curricula to sit for the general certificate examinations using those same curricula, limited to the current and the next two academic years.

Al-Jazeera Net also said the decision was published last Friday and that Article 2 provides for recognizing certificates previously issued by the 'Self-Administration' under the current procedures and instructions.

Al-Jazeera Net reported that in Hasakah Governorate, the number of applicants for the two certificates—preparatory and secondary—reached about 29,120 students, spread across 115 examination centers, according to the Ministry of Education.

“Damascus – SANA: The Ministry of Education has issued a decision allowing students who previously studied under the 'Self-Administration' curricula to sit the general certificate examinations for the two stages of the General Secondary Education and Basic Education, but only during the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years, in accordance with the nationally unified controls and criteria set by the ministry”

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Al-Jazeera Net said the 'final' cycles began with Basic Education certificate examinations for the 2025-2026 school year starting on June 4 this year, with about 450,000 students across more than 2,000 examination centers.

Al-Jazeera Net added that the General Secondary certificate examinations began on June 6 with about 369,000 students across 1,570 centers, while students take their examinations according to the Government of Syria curriculum in all provinces except three areas: Hasakah, Idlib, and Rural Aleppo.

Al-Jazeera Net said in Hasakah students take the 'Self-Administration' curricula within the deadline set by the Ministry of Education, while in Idlib students take examinations according to a copy of the Syrian curriculum adopted by the 'Syrian Interim Government' earlier, and in Rural Aleppo students sit for the exams for the last time under the local councils.