Tag: history
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...
Macedonia 18.12.20 | 22:06

Broad debate needed for changes in education, not a copied solution, Pendarovski believes

Education needs to be transformed, in line with new times and new technologies, but change is taking place slowly all over the world. Broad debate is needed for changes in education, and not a copied solution, said President Stevo Pendarovski on TV Kanal 5. Regarding the announcement for changes in education,...
Macedonia 17.12.20 | 20:17

Prof. Sarakinski: History class also to include philosophy, ethics and anthropology

Professor Vojislav Sarakinski from the Faculty of Philosophy asks whose idea it was to change the curricula for elementary education, so that students will no longer study history class, which will be abolished, and the “societal studies” class will be introduced instead. He points out that...
Macedonia 17.12.20 | 16:53

It is not healthy to do such experiments with our future, the children

I do not know how something more could be achieved with the reduction of classes. There is a history class in the Finnish model, historian Mire Mladenovski told TV24. In Slovenia they show high results in these tests. History in Slovenia is a stand-alone class, it is studied just like in our country....
Macedonia 17.12.20 | 12:22

Proposal to remove history from the curriculum is part of Zaev’s new Bulgaria policy

The announcement from the Education Ministry that they will abolish history as a stand-alone class in elementary schools came suspiciously quick after Prime Minister Zoran Zaev agreed to accept much of the Bulgarian terms laid before Macedonia. The decision is being explained as a move to streamline...
Macedonia 16.12.20 | 22:04

Andonovski: By cancelling history class, the government is trying to redefine history and distort the facts

Stefan Andonovski, member of the Executive Committee of VMRO-DPMNE, reacted Wednesday on TV Telma’s “Top tema” to today’s statement by Mila Carovska about to cancel history as a stand-along class and roll it into a broad class called societal studies as in Finland, saying that...
Macedonia 16.12.20 | 20:50

Bureau for Development of Education: Changes in history classes will begin next year

The planned changes in terms of classes will start next year and will be introduced in the first and sixth grade, the Bureau for Development of Education told Meta. The most modern practice is the merging of history in social sciences, just as biology and chemistry are integrated into natural sciences,...
Macedonia 16.12.20 | 17:35

Neither history nor any scientific discipline is being canceled, they will be rolled into a broad class, says the Education Ministry

The Ministry of Education and Science is preparing a completely new model of teaching in which no scientific discipline will be lost, but the concept in which students study the material will change. The purpose of these reforms is to give students a complete picture of a particular event or topic, and...
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 04.12.20 | 14:39

“Zaev lied to us” – Bulgarian historians protest that the Macedonian counterparts are holding their ground

Bulgarian Trud paper reports that the talks between Macedonian and Bulgarian historians have yielded no result. Bulgarian historians are blaming their Macedonian counterparts of refusing to budge and accept their proposals, even after Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, in his BGNES interview, publicly...
Macedonia 25.11.20 | 19:33

Members of the historic committee with Bulgaria condemn Zaev’s statements, ask him to stick to his lane

Historians who are part of the joint committee with Bulgaria are coming out against the interview Prime Minister Zoran Zaev gave to the Bulgarian BGNES news agency. Hisorian Ljubica Spaskovska spoke out publicly, and Deutsche Welle reports that at least two others have also voiced strong criticism of...
Macedonia 14.10.20 | 11:35

Macedonia-Bulgaria joint commission to meet in Skopje on Thursday and Friday

After a long break, the commission established to resolve the historical disputes between Macedonia and Bulgaria will hold meetings in Skopje on Thursday and Friday. It is planned to end with the already started discussion regarding the harmonization of recommendations for history textbooks for 7th grade...
Macedonia 28.04.20 | 12:18

Macedonia’s first Foreign Minister Denko Maleski says the country should review its history in line with the Bulgarian historical narrative

The first Macedonian Foreign Minister Denko Maleski, who was a strong contender to be the SDSM presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, published an editorial in which he agrees with the Bulgarian position that Macedonians and Bulgarians “were the same people”. The editorial was published...
Macedonia 18.12.19 | 10:15

Macedonian historians confirm they asked for a “temporary pause” in their talks with Bulgaria, to avoid influencing pre-election politics

Macedonian representatives in the joint commission of historians created with Bulgaria have confirmed that they have asked for its work to be paused due to the early general elections in Macedonia. Bulgarian representative Angel Dimitrov yesterday said that the Macedonian side unilaterally stopped the...
Macedonia 03.10.19 | 20:12

Zaev calls on the historic committee to make further concessions to Bulgaria

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev urged the historians that are part of the joint committee with Bulgaria to make further concessions in the talks over historic figures such as Goce Delcev, as Bulgaria is mulling using its veto power against Macedonia again. History is a living, breathing thing, it is debated...
Macedonia 27.06.19 | 10:38

Nikola Dimitrov read letters from Goce Delcev ahead of Thursday’s meetings in Sofia

Within the framework of the Black Sea Initiative, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov will meet Thursday in Sofia with senior political representatives of Bulgaria to define their position on Goce Delcev as a historical person, as well as to contribute to finding a mutually acceptable solution. He revealed...
Macedonia 07.04.19 | 20:36

Siljanovska sees politics, not science, behind the committees that rewrite Macedonia’s history

VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova says that the commission set up with Greece to rewrite Macedonian history and school books is politically, not scientifically driven. Instead of forming a commission under the Macedonian Academy or the university, theirs is led by...
Macedonia 05.02.19 | 17:38

Greek member of the expert committee calls Macedonians “amorphous mass”, “made up by Tito”

Under the Prespa agreement, Macedonia was forced to accept the creation of an expert commission which will have the right to go through Macedonian history books and school books to look for evidence of “irredentism” or “historic falsehoods”, and the agreement even provides for...
Macedonia 10.01.19 | 16:36

Greek historians declare first three demands, their Macedonian counterparts had no proposals of their own

Greek diplomatic sources briefed the MIA news agency about the initial three requests the country has under the Prespa treaty. The joint expert Committee is operational even before the treaty is ratified, and under it Greece can block Macedonia’s EU accession if Macedonia doesn’t move to...
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