Tag: Ministry of Education and Science

The Chinese influence in higher education in North Macedonia is focused primarily on a few state universities in the country, with ongoing cooperation throughout the years that resulted in an exchange of students and professors and by signing agreements and memoranda of understanding. The champions of this cooperation are the following three universities: the oldest - Ss. Cyril and...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, in North Macedonia the school desks were substituted with computer monitors, while the homes were turned into classrooms. The classroom teaching was forcibly interrupted, imposing a challenge to both students and teaching staff. Lately, the teaching process is suffering from longer breaks again, due to false alerts about planted bombs, keeping the students away from...

The Goce Delchev Student Dormitory in Skopje / Photo: Meta.mk   In May this year, “State Student Dormitory – Skopje” announced that admission in the state dormitories at the beginning of the academic year will be digitized, which will put an end to the waiting in long lines and to the extensive documentation necessary for admission. However, the announced digitization was...

The North Macedonia's State Graduation Board accepted the proposal which envision that this year's State graduation exams for the high school graduates will consist of four exams i.e. 2 external and 2 internal and a project task, informed the Ministry of Education and Science. In the next several days, the Board will prepare the new draft concept. "At today's online...

From the beginning of the following school year, on 1st of September, the teachers that do not own computers will use the school machines that are now in the Informatics classrooms, for teaching. They will be distributed in each classroom to allow for normal teaching, says Elizabeta Naumovska, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of North Macedonia for meta.mk,...

"Support for online teaching in the 2020/2021 school year" is the name of a Facebook Group which counts 3.500 members from North Macedonia, and these days, when stil there are many unknowns about the start of the new academic year, the commentaries are reaching the fever pitch. Many parents announced they won't let their children attend school as, in...

The Ministry of Education and Science is following the situation regarding the measles epidemic, in coordination with the ministries of health, labour and social policy, as well as on the basis of the situation on the ground. We will decide on a possible delay in the second half, which as a rule should start on January 21, said Minister...

The Ministry of Education and Science has begun a procedure for selecting an institution that will rank Macedonian state and private universities (league tables) for the fourth time, the ministry told “Meta”. What is new is that according to the new Law on Higher Education, instead of every two years, higher education institutions will be ranked every three years. The national ranking...

The Ministry of Education is preparing a project to success the project "A Computer for Every Child". This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Petar Atanasov for "Meta" who says that it is necessary to digitize the curriculum, enabling students to learn from modern tools. "It's a big change that has to happen. I do not...