Tag: school
Macedonia 18.09.20 | 11:02

Online classes to start on October 1, still uncertain if first graders will attend in-person learning

Online teaching will start on October 1, while changes are possible for in-person teaching if there is a deterioration of the epidemiological situation, Minister of Education and Science Mila Carovska announced Friday in the Parliament, which should decide on amendments to the laws on primary and secondary...
Macedonia 17.09.20 | 14:06

World Bank: In terms of quality of learning, 11 years of schooling in Macedonia is only equivalent to 7.3 years

Young people in the Europe and Central Asia region are being provided with the opportunities needed to grow into productive adults, thanks to continued investments in health and education during their childhood and teenage years, says the latest update of the World Bank’s Human Capital Index (HCI),...
Macedonia 07.09.20 | 09:46

No in-person classes for students over third grade in Skopje-based schools

Smaller schools, except those based in Skopje, can ask for permission to hold in-person classes to all students come October 1, not just to pupils up to third grade, Health Minister Venko Filipce told Radio Free Europe on Sunday. He stressed in the interview that the new school year is set to start in...
Macedonia 04.09.20 | 16:59

Classes will last 30 minutes, schools will remain open until 8 in the evening

The Education Ministry and municipal authorities announced the basic principles of the next school year. Elementary school pupils from grades one through three will be required to attend education in person, while for the higher grades, schools will individually declare their readiness to implement the...
Macedonia 18.08.20 | 11:39

With the Government still on recess, VMRO proposes three modes for the new school year

Given the chaos in the public education system with less than two weeks before the start of the school year, VMRO-DPMNE proposed its solution to the issue. The party suggests that the schools are divided in different categories given the local infection rate and that education is organized accordingly. Under...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 22:06

Ademi: In-person teaching for first to third grade – classes for other students to be held online

Education Minister, Arber Ademi, said on TV 21’s “10 minutes” show that in the schools where there is a small number of students, the classes can take place with physical presence while observing the measures against Covid-19. This proposal should get the green light from the Government....
Macedonia 12.08.20 | 10:44

Education Minister Ademi counters healthcare experts, wants teaching to resume in person

Education Minister Arbr Ademi said that the position of his department is that students should begin attended in-person education at the start of the new year on September 1. The statement comes after the Committee on Infectious Diseases proposed that classes continue under the improvised online system,...
Macedonia 11.08.20 | 20:26

Government to wait for the model for the education process from the Commission for Infectious Diseases

The Government adopted Tuesday the Ministry of Education and Science’s report and plan on instruction in school year 2020/2021, which is to be shared with the Commission for Infectious Diseases. The model for implementation of the instruction process in elementary and secondary schools will be adopted...
Macedonia 11.08.20 | 12:17

Three weeks untill the start of the school year there is still no plan in sight

With just three weeks to go before the school year starts, the Education and Healthcare ministries still haven’t come up with a plan how they expect children to go back to schools. Public education has been put on hold since March, with the outbreak of the coronavirus, and except for an improvised...
Macedonia 10.08.20 | 16:46

Health safety protocols for possible reopening of schools still not adopted

Commission for Infectious Diseases and Education Ministry officials earlier today had a meeting to discuss health safety protocols that should be adopted ahead of a possible reopening of schools on September 1. No conclusions were passed today on the matter, the Ministry of Health said. Talks will continue...
Macedonia 07.07.20 | 19:58

Parents of young elementary school pupils told to go back to work

The Government ordered that parents of children under 10 years of age who go to school have to begin going back to work. These parents were exempt from going to work during the course of the epidemic because with the kindergartens closed, many parents had no other option to care for their children. Kindergartens...
Macedonia 23.06.20 | 18:16

Struga school principal orders the removal of the Star of Kutlesh

The principal of an elementary school in Struga ordered taht the Star of Kutlesh – Macedonia’s original flag that was forcibly replaced under Greek pressure – is erased from the schoolyard. The star was recently drawn there in protest after attempts by the Government to remove the symbol....
Macedonia 30.04.20 | 17:14

Ademi: High school final exam cancelled, pupils will not go back to school

This year’s high school final exam is cancelled, said Minister of Education and Science Arber Ademi on Thursday. Minister Ademi presented the set of measures from the education plan that the Government adopted at today’s session. Pupils in elementary and secondary schools will not go back to schools...
Macedonia 22.04.20 | 17:12

City of Tetovo buys 300 laptops for school kids who couldn’t follow the online lessons

The Tetovo city council ordered the purchase of 300 laptop computers for school kids who don’t have computers and are excluded from the improvised online classes that are being prepared. Many schools across Macedonia are using Google Classroom and Youtube to get the pupils to study but this raised...
Macedonia 31.03.20 | 14:26

School grades will be based on prior work and the on-going online learning

If the school year can’t continue, the Education Ministry plans to have students evaluated using a mix of the grades they had at the end of the first semester and the grades they will get during the on-going online learning, Alsat TV reports. Many schools across Macedonia have begun holding online...
Macedonia 18.03.20 | 15:56

Acevski: The school year is lost because of the slow response

The Education Ministry failed to prepare an online course and as a result the school year is lost, said sociology professor Ilija Acevski in an interview with Sloboden Pecat. While some schools are self-organizing, online instruction still hasn’t started for students across Macedonia who are a...
Macedonia 18.12.19 | 10:54

High school in downtown Skopje evacuated following a threat report

The Lazar Licenovski art school in Skopje was evacuated today due to an unspecified threat. Police blocked entry to the school in downtown Skopje, while the teachers and students were led out of the building. According to early media reports, the reason for the evacuation was a bomb threat.
Macedonia 16.12.19 | 13:53

Gjorce Petrov schools ban the use of phones during class

Skopje’s Gjorce Petrov municipality banned the use of cell phones during classes. The widespread practice has become such a nuisance that the town hall decided to get involved. The ban will be policed by teachers, who will face fines if they don’t uphold it. Teachers are named as part of...
Macedonia 08.11.19 | 20:54

Parents from an Aerodrom school protest against the construction of a kindergarten in their school yard

Parents of children attending the Blaze Koneski elementary school in Skopje’s central Aerodrom district, are protesting against a plan to build a kindergarten in the school yard. This part of the city is undergoing massive construction of new apartment buildings and the parents are complaining...
Macedonia 26.10.19 | 10:36

School in Rostuse renamed to honor IT entrepreneur and motivational speaker Hajan Selmani

The Georgia Pulevski elementary school in the village of Rostuse is being renamed after IT businessman and motivational speaker Hajan Selmani, who died recently aged 33. The Rostuse municipal council made the decision yesterday, to honor Selmani, who was born in the near-by Velebrdo. Selmani was an enterpreneur...
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