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Tawjihiis the general secondary examination in Jordan, West Bank and Gaza, part of education in Jordan and education in Palestine. Upon graduation, the ministry of Higher education, via a system much like that of the United Kingdom tariff points, transforms the Grades/Marks of the foreign educational programs, to the same marks found in grading Tawjihi students. However, even after the equivalency transformation, non-Tawjihi graduates are not allowed to compete with Tawjihi graduates for public university places. For non-Tawjihi graduates, there is a set quota of 5% of places. Most graduates of foreign programs find yourself paying international fees to obtain a invest their desired faculty. The reason behind this, is that the quota set for the quantity of seats was decided in the 80's when approximately only 4 schools taught international programs, and the number of places allocated seemed fair. In fact, seeing the insignificant number of foreign program graduates, who requested national universities, it absolutely was. Today, however, very nearly 25 schools teach IGCSE/GCSE/GCE programs alone.

Some argue how many places is more than fair, and some the opposite. In most cases the problem is a source of much heated debate. Private schools are constantly trying to convince the National Assembly of Jordan to increase percentage. For the anatawjihi.combeing there appears to be no want to do so.

The ministry of Education claims that it does not have any problem with increasing the number of places, and that it is in fact the universities that do perhaps not agree. On some level this really is rather true, as universities benefit more by the registration of more students as international i. e. paying international fees.

Yet another source of trouble is the system used to transform exam results of foreign education programs into the anatawjihi scale, which really is a percentage out of 100. Again, some start to see the system as fair and actually over lenient with non-Tawjihi graduates, while some notice it as unfair. Below is really a summary of the requirements to get an equivalency of Tawjihi, as previously mentioned by the British Council Jordan.