Tag: carovska
Macedonia 27.04.21 | 16:34

Strumica high-school students plan a boycott over Minister Carovska’s latest plan to rewrite school books

High school students from Strumica are organizing to boycott classes in protest against plans by Education Minister Mila Carovska to switch to electronic school books. The students are repeating their old request for in-person schooling and insist that e-books will just solidify the Ministry’s...

Macedonia 19.04.21 | 16:00

Drone contract signed by the city of Skopje with Minister Carovska’s partner is a corrupt waste of taxpayers money, VMRO-DPMNE claims

The contract which the city of Skopje signed with the partner of Minister Mila Carovska, worth a million denars, has not been put into effect, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski. According to the contract, the Fly Cam company owned by Goran Georgievski, was hired to provide a drone that will...

Macedonia 26.03.21 | 15:41

One of the defendants in the Racket scandal calls out Minister Mila Carovska for her role in the extortion scheme

SDSM party official Frosina Remenski, who is the only party official charged for her role in the Racket scandal, called out Education Minister Mila Carovska, after details about her own involvement became known to the public. Carovska was named by a key witness in the on-going, second Racket trial. As...

Macedonia 25.03.21 | 14:13

Education Minister Mila Carovska becomes the center of the Racket trial allegations

Education Minister Mila Carovska is quickly assuming the position of the most criticial unindicted suspect in the major Racket scandal. According to the witness Liljana Todorovska, in 2017 Carovska, who was then Labour and Welfare Minister, connected her to showman Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13. Todorovska...

Macedonia 24.03.21 | 23:35

Witness testifies that Mila Carovska was part of the Racket scheme

Witness Liljana Todorovska, who today testified in a hearing in the second Racket trial, said that Education Minister Mila Carovska was involved in the elaborate scheme to extort money from businessmen. Todorovska was the author of a plan to bring public subsidies in the retirement industry – mainly...

Macedonia 22.03.21 | 11:26

SDSM used the public schools for its partisan elections

Education Minister Mila Carovska and municipal officials allowed the ruling SDSM party to use schools for its elections yesterday. The brazen politization was not restricted to schools – SDSM used cultural centers and even municipal offices for its stunt elections in which party leader Zoran Zaev...

Macedonia 17.03.21 | 23:35

Zaev’s ministers are playing social media games instead of working to find vaccines

As the epidemic rages in Macedonia with a major, third wave killing tens of people each day, and the Zaev Government failed miserably in its obligation to find vaccines, his ministers are entertaining themselves with music challenges. Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska was the first to reveal her music...

Macedonia 02.03.21 | 20:20

Government approves Education Minister Carovska’s plan to rewrite history

The Zaev Government today approved the strategy proposed by Education Minister Mila Carovska to significantly re-organize elementary education. The most controversial item in the plan is the idea to abolish history as a stand-alone class and incorporate it in a much broader class, with elements of geography...

Macedonia 12.02.21 | 09:33

Education Minister Carovska forced to isolate because of coronavirus contact

Education Minister Mila Carovska was forced into isolation after being in contact with a person positive on the coronavirus. The order comes at a time when Carovska is trying to prevent a renewed boycott of high-school education, where students demand to have their graduation exam cut in half, and to...

Macedonia 09.02.21 | 10:05

Family of talented kid who was denied a math prize takes Education Minister Carovska to court

The Davkov family announced it will turn to the Administrative Court, after Education Minister Mila Carovska remained determined to deny Damjan Davkov, 12 year old math wiz, his first place prize. The Minister’s obstinacy annoyed the public which praised Davkov after the boy beat older high-school...

Macedonia 07.02.21 | 20:45

Family of snubbed math wiz speaks out as the Education Minister adds insult to injury

Nikica Davkova, the mother of eight-grader Damjan Davkov who was denied an award after beating high-school students in a math competition, spoke out publicly after the embarrassing move by the Education Ministry. Minister Mila Carovska’s office defended the decision insisting that by law the boy...

Macedonia 05.02.21 | 19:11

Zaev and Carovska bring supporters from academia to the Parliament to defend their controversial plan to rewrite Macedonia’s history books

Zoran Zaev and his Education Minister Mila Carovska called on a number of supporters from academia to defend their plan to roll elementary school classes into groups. The plan is controversial as it will abolish stand-alone classes such as history – at a time when Bulgaria and Greece demand that...

Macedonia 02.02.21 | 20:25

DUI breaks ranks with the Education Ministry, comes out in support of striking high-school students

The DUI party joined the opposition parties in endorsing demands from high-school students, who want the Education Ministry to cut the graduation exam in half. The students are citing the poor quality of online education as the reason for their demand, and have already received support from VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 01.02.21 | 16:57

Education Minister Carovska tells striking students they will have to make up for the lost classes

Education Minister Mila Carovska threatened high school students that they will have to work overtime to make up for the classes they are losing now, with the on-going boycott. Most high-school students are boycotting as they demand that the year-end graduation test is cut in half, because of the poor...

Macedonia 26.01.21 | 15:28

Education Minister Caroska turns to her old colleagues from far left NGO groups to support her controversial “reform”

Education Minister Mila Carovska, whose background prior to joining the Government was as an activist in far left NGO groups, turned to her old colleagues to ask them to support the controversial changes in elementary education curriculums. Carovska wants to abolish a number of stand-alone classes and...

Macedonia 16.01.21 | 10:52

Tone deaf Education Minister shows up with a scarf that costs as much as a teacher’s salary

Education Minister Mila Carovska is in the news for the attempts to drastically change the curriculum under pressure from Bulgaria and Greece, but yesterday the far left former NGO activist who is one of the richest members of the Zaev Government, showed up to an event wearing a scarf that costs as much...

Macedonia 15.01.21 | 13:11

Education Minister Carovska denies claims that she is undermining Macedonian language studies under pressure from Bulgaria

Education Minister Mila Carovska denied claims from distinguished literature professor and writer Jasna Koteska, that she is planning to abolish Macedonian language studies at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Koteska, who teaches at the Philology Faculty, said that Carovska has put forward...

Macedonia 29.12.20 | 13:27

Education Minister Carovska loses another authority she used to justify her controversial reform

An older statement from former Education Minister Arbr Ademi added to the confusion surrounding the controversial education reform pushed by his successor Mila Carovska. Carovska wants to have a number of elementary school classes abolished and rolled into one large class. This will affect both STEM...

Macedonia 16.12.20 | 15:04

Outrage spread as Education Ministry plans to cancel history as an elementary school class are made public

The announcement that the Education Ministry is preparing to abolish history as a stand-along class that will be taught in elementary school caused outrage in the public. The announcement was wrestled out of Education Minister Mila Carovska today, at a time when Macedonia is strongly pressured to give...

Macedonia 05.10.20 | 14:16

More schools will begin in-person teaching as the online platform is off to a rocky start

Faced with the fact that many households are unable to provide computers so that their children would attend online education, the Government today agreed to allow several dozen elementary schools to operate with in-person education. At least a quarter of students have reported problems following the...

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