2024-08-03 10:26:39
“I think there are deeper things in NŠA. One investigation has already been carried out, now there will be another, then the picture will be seen where the great responsibility for those repeated mistakes really lies”, said R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė to Eltai.
As previously announced, even though A. Aldakauskas, who is the temporary head of the NŠA, accepts part of the responsibility for the situation, he nevertheless assured LRT radio on Monday that he has no intention of resigning from his post. A. Aldakauskas also revealed that he himself is participating in the currently ongoing competition for the position of the head of the NŠA.
However, both the Presidency and the Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė hope that the candidate who wins the competition for the head of the NŠA, which is currently being held, will be able to ensure the smooth operation of the institution.
However, according to the minister, although after the deadline for submission of documents, there were 44 candidates who wanted to be the head of the NŠA, after the evaluation of the candidates’ competences, there were half as many.
“As far as I know, more than 20 of the 44 applicants dropped out after the first round. It will be seen what the results will be. We should have the new manager in a month and hopefully that will resolve the issue. I have no preferences, the commission will evaluate competently and present those few final applicants”, R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė taught.
ELTA reminds that last Thursday the National Education Agency (NŠA) informed that the final results of the twelfth grade papers changed due to an error in the calculation of exam grades by the company that digitizes the results of high school graduates’ examinations.
It has been announced that the results of the main session foreign languages (English, German, Russian), biology, physics, geography and re-session exams are changing after the mistake.
“The company informed that, due to a technical error, the algorithm for calculating the final exam result did not include the corrections of the answers chosen by the student to the closed-ended questions on the answer sheet.
For this reason, the final assessment of 2,832 graduate works changes to the higher side, on average about 1.4 points out of 100, and 1,044 to a lower one, the average change is insignificant – 1.3 points out of 100″, – stated the interim director of NŠA, Aidas Aldakauskas, in a previously released announcement.
The temporary head of NŠA informed that five graduates failed their exams after the corrected errors.
“Five students appeared, (…) who will fail the exam,” said A. Aldakauskas, unable to say whether these students will have their matriculation certificates annulled.
NŠA noted that all the updated information has reached LAMA BPO, so the process of admission to higher education institutions is not disturbed.
2024-08-03 10:26:39