Lebanese exam boycott looms as wage scale vote postponed
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Hundreds of Lebanese teachers and civil servants, renewing threats to boycott official exams, rallied outside the Ministry of Education Tuesday to coincide with a Parliamentary session that had been scheduled to debate the wage scale bill. But Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri delayed yet again the discussion over the wage scale until June 19, dashing hopes that the exam crisis, which will affect tens of thousands of students, could be averted. read more