Tag: reform
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 02.01.21 | 13:58

“The only goal of Zaev’s judicial reforms is to protect criminals close to him”

The announced vetting of the judiciary will only work on paper, but in reality will be implemented by activists of the ruling SDSM party and will only result in more impunity for the Zaev regime, said VMRO-DPMNE official Stefan Andonovski. Zaev and his Justice Minister Bojan Maricic announced they will...

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 13.10.20 | 22:40

VMRO proposes a serious electoral reform

The municipal elections planned for 2021 should be held in a different format, with a single round, first-past-the-post model, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said. This would be a safer and more economical model, he added during his Kanal 5 TV interview. Under the current model, the municipal...