Nearly 1,000 learners with disabilities are receiving special assistance as they sit Rwanda’s Primary Leaving Examinations for the 2025/26 academic year, as part of efforts to promote inclusive education.

A total of 277,452 pupils have started Rwanda’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) for the 2025/26 academic year, as the country’s national examination season gets underway.

Renowned researcher and author on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Yolande Mukagasana, has called on young people to embrace a legacy of love, unity, and rejection of division as she launched her new book “Umurage w’Urubyiruko” (The Youth Legacy), a work focused on Rwanda’s history and lessons for future generations.

A new study by the National Examination and School Inspection Authority (NESA) has revealed a significant learning gap in Rwanda’s education system, showing that many primary school pupils can read fluently but struggle to understand what they read.

The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) says nearly Rwf 1 billion has been mobilised over the past two years to support Rwanda’s national school feeding programme under the “Dusangire Lunch” campaign.

Pupils at Mushirarungu Primary School in Rwabicuma Sector, Nyanza District, have accused some teachers of subjecting them to corporal punishment and sending them home over failure to pay school meal contributions.

The Ministry of Education, through the National Examination and School Inspection Authority (NESA), has officially launched practical examinations for 74,085 candidates completing secondary education in the 2025/26 academic year.