Tag: education
Macedonia 07.10.21 | 16:07

Elementary school pupils in Bitola were polled about their sexual experience with older partners

A new controversy over the type of sexual education programs Zaev’s far left Education Minister Mila Carovska is trying to impose on children erupted in Bitola. Elementary school pupils in the “St. Clement” school were given a questionnaire that contained questions such as “have...
Macedonia 29.08.21 | 12:01

Dr. Nikolov: The state should protect the educational process

In-person learning and preservation of the educational process should be the guiding star of the government and the state. As a mother protects her children from external attacks, so the state should try to protect the educational process, especially for the youngest, Dr. Igor Nikolov, chairman of the...
Macedonia 18.08.21 | 17:10

Minister Filipce says parents will be able to require that their children attend school online

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that parents will be allowed to withdraw their children from schools if they are concerned because of the coronavirus pandemic. School is supposed to begin on September 1st, and the Education Ministry plans to offer in-person teaching, after having online education...
Macedonia 17.08.21 | 22:36

Education Ministry plans to start the new school year with in-person teaching

The Government announced that it plans to open all schools for in-person teaching on September 1st, after most of the last school year was conducted online. Education Minister Mila Carovska said that 62 percent of teachers are vaccinated and that it should be safe to open schools. but the Government...
Macedonia 17.08.21 | 17:07

Call for protest as the start of the school year remains uncertain

Calls for protests are spreading on a widely used Facebook group of parents of school-age children, as uncertainty grows over whether the school year will begin in September. Macedonia conducted the last school year mostly online, and Education Minister Mila Carovska insisted that this year it will be...
Macedonia 24.07.21 | 13:08

Education Ministry is hiring 500 assistants to work with special needs children

The Education Ministry is hiring 500 teacher’s assistants, who will work with children with impairment and disabilities. Applicants should meet criteria for employment as public school teachers or have completed courses in special education and childcare. The posts will be in two schools in Skopje,...
Macedonia 11.07.21 | 15:24

Mickoski: We will never have a respectable country without proper education

Without quality education and real reforms we will remain a hybrid regime, said opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski in his Alfa TV interview.  We will never have a respectable state without proper education. We will remain in company of countries like Benin, Bangladesh and Gabon, Mickoski said.
Macedonia 24.06.21 | 19:01

SDSM party branch was caught deciding who gets hired by a school in Skopje

The Macedonian Education Ministry tapped political candidates for its list of mentors to students in the municipality of Karpos, then promptly deleted it when the political affiliation of the candidates became clear. The list was published, then hidden. There are several reasons for this, but the main...
Macedonia 31.05.21 | 21:33

Mickoski: We give full support to the parents, Carovska and Zaev have no idea about digitalization

VMRO-DPMNE leader, Hristijan Mickoski, said in an interview with Sitel TV that he supported the initiative of parents to organize a referendum in relation to the digitalization of textbooks announced by the Minister of Education, Mila Carovska. We absolutely support it from day one, because what they...
Macedonia 27.05.21 | 19:41

Education Minister Carovska invites the opposition – sort of – to work with her on the controversial digital platform

After weeks of ignoring demands from parents over her latest controversial set of proposals, Education Minister Mila Carovska today finally called on the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party to make suggestions regarding the proposal. Carovska is trying to end the use of printed textbooks and make the school...
Macedonia 15.05.21 | 13:27

High school students take to the streets to protest Minister Carovska

High school students and their parents began protests in downtown Skopje and in dozens of other towns and cities across Macedonia. They demand that Education Minister Mila Carovska drops her plans to remove printed textbooks from the education process, and to ensure in-person teaching from next year. Carovska’s...
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 14.02.21 | 22:29

Striking high school students reach a deal with the Education Ministry

The Education Ministry reached a deal with the striking high-school students to reduce the year-end graduation exam, as the students requested, but still have then take a total of four exams. The Ministry will now work to prepare the details of the re-organized test. High-school students boycotted the...
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 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 24.12.20 | 22:11

Nikoloski: Zaev’s Government spends on dubious procurement contracts while undercutting education

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski accused the Zaev Government of badly underinvesting in education, while at the same time using 20 percent of the budget on unproductive and luxury spending. The most dubious item of the budget, goods and services procured by the Government, is at a historically...
Macedonia 24.12.20 | 17:50

Key institute calls on the Education Ministry to drop its controversial reform

The Pedagogy Institute voted today to reject the Education Ministry’s proposal for reforms that would roll several elementary school classes into one. The most controversial element of the proposal is that history is abolished as a stand-alone class and replaced with a mixture of history, geography...
Macedonia 24.12.20 | 13:30

Zaev claims teachers, universities professors, MANU academics will be consulted over reforms in elementary education

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday that teachers, university professors, as well as academics, will be consulted during the preparation of the reforms in elementary education.  The goal, said the Prime Minister, is for the reform to maximize the content that will help the students. I think that...
Macedonia 23.12.20 | 23:32

Finnish officials deny that the controversial education reform in Macedonia is based on their model

The association of Macedonians living in Finland responded to the claims of the Education Ministry that the controversial reforms that provide the abolition of history and other sciences as stand-alone classes in elementary schools is based on the Finnish model of education. Minister Mila Carovska insists...
Macedonia 22.12.20 | 22:34

Government announces a debate on its education reform, but remains determined to cancel history as an independent class

The Zaev Government issued a statement calling on the public not to consider the coming educational reform – “the abolition of history”. The Government, pressed by Greece and Bulgaria to rewrite Macedonian history, announced a plan that would roll several elementary school classes into...
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