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Ombudsman: Attempts to politically involve students must stop

Today, in a statement the Ombudsman of the Republic of Macedonia, expressed serious concern regarding attempts to involve children in protests which are being organized in cities across the country. The Ombudsman also condemns the management’s approach in schools and calls on the school committees, Mayors, the State School Inspectorate and the Ministry of Education immediately, each of them within...

MOF: Agitating young people for partisan purposes must stop

“Students should be left alone to think critically and to express themselves, and every time someone imposes their opinion on them, or intimidates and abuses them, we strongly condemn it. Causing agitation among young people for achieving partisan purposes must stop”, said a statement released by the Youth Education Forum (MOF). They added that “principals, teachers and parents need to...

Students from the technical school in Bitola protested against bilinguality

Tens of students from the secondary technical school “Gjorgji Naumov” from Bitola, before noon around 10 o’clock stopped the classes and went into the school yard to protest against the billinguality The students say they were organized by themselves through the social networks as they don’t agree with the current policy in the state to “study the Albanian language.” The...

Tomorrow the conference of the “Support without hate” project comes to an end

The project “Support without hate” that was carried out by 10 young activists, journalists, and students, and was financed by the US Embassy in Albania will be finalized tomorrow at the press conference that will be held at the “GEM-club” starting at 14:00 pm. During the press conference, the project’s activities will be presented such as the influence of social...

The Association of Turkish students appeal that only official institutions should be trusted

The Association of graduate students at the Turkish universities in Macedonia reacted upon the misunderstandings related to the news published in some of the media regarding the termination of the agreement for a mutual recognition of the diplomas in Turkey. Members of the Association said that all the necessary measures were taken and are calling upon to everyone to...

Turkey has canceled the agreement for the recognition of Macedonian diplomas

Turkey has annulled the agreement with Macedonia for a mutual recognition of Macedonian diplomas on all educational levels, says “Alsat M.” The decision was already published at an official gazette in Turkey and it refers to an agreement that was signed by both countries on the 6th of July 1998 and with which Turkey and Macedonia established...

Large Turnout At The First Student Referendum

Today, the “Student Plenum” organized their first student referendum, which was held on the 20 faculties of the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius". The “Student Plenum” said that so far, voting has taken place in a peaceful, fair and democratic atmosphere and that surprisingly, there has been a large turnout.  “Voting did not begin at the Veterinary, Agriculture and the...

Macedonian Students From A Tetovo High School Return To Class Outside

After nearly a month of boycotting, Macedonian students from a Tetovo high school have returned to class. However, instead of returning to their desks, they began classes standing, outside in the open, on the city square of Tetovo. “We are aware that the boycott harmed the students most of all, and as we do not have the appropriate space where...

Teachers Will Decide Whether Absences are Justified Due to Earthquakes

According to "Meta" sources, in several Skopje municipalities, there is a noticeable absence of pupils. Whether this absence of students is due to the recent earthquakes is justified or not, it will depend on the opinion of individual teachers as the Ministry of Education has no official position on the absence of students as a result of the earthquakes. Despite, several attempts...

IZIIS have declared several classrooms off limits in schools in Skopje after earthquakes

The Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Skopje (IZIIS) on the recommendation of the Steering Committee on crisis management, today visited schools and kindergartens to see the damage and possible consequences after a series of earthquakes struck Skopje in the last two days. We discovered, that they visited several facilities, and in some schools, some parts of the premises...

“Student Plenum” announces a gathering in front of the University Rectory

Students from the “Student Plenum” will gather in front of the University Rectory at the Univeristy of Cyril and Methodius (UKIM) at 8:00 am, while an emergency session will be taking place after events which unfolded while electing a new student leader. They have called on their colleagues to come to the session and to share their thoughts and opinion...

After a night of tension, SPUKM announces they have selected a President

The new President of the Student Parliament of UKIM with 3.851 votes is Davor Popovski, announced SPUKM this morning. They also said the total amount of students who voted was 5.264. SPUKM also announced that the electoral process was fair and democratic, apart from the actions of the scandalous political motivated “Student Plenum”, who have been there largest critics during the...

Students vote without screens or an electoral roll

No screens, without an electoral roll, all students had was a box wrapped in white pages with which Presidents to vote for as President of the Student Parliament at the Faculty of Law, for ballots to be collected. Members of the Election Commission gave some students a sealed stamp when they voted, and some they didn’t, nor would they comment...

State graduation begins smoothly

The beginning of state exams for graduation began with no problems, the first exams were in Macedonian language and literature, Albanian language and literature and Turkish language and literature, all compulsory subjects, and went smoothly. The state examination centre stated that the material for the exams had been given to students on time, and in accordance to all the regulations and...

Today exams begin for state graduation

Today exams begin for state graduation for high schools, the first exams will be for Macedonian. On the 9th of June, students will be taking exams for mathematics, and on the 13th of June all high schools will be holding exams for a foreign language. On the 15th of June, students will be taking exams in subjects, physics, chemistry,...

Elections have prolonged external testing and have moved sport tournaments

External testing of students this year was moved a few days later, however it is not because of the elections, the Ministry of Education told "Meta" unofficially, in response to what teachers and parents believe is the reason why the school year has been extended. "This does not mean that the school year will be prolonged, but only that deadlines have...

Elections have delayed external testing and the school break by a week

The external testing of students this year has been moved a few days later due to the early parliamentary elections scheduled for June 5, "Meta" has learnt from teachers at primary schools, who yesterday received the action plan for the June session. Namely, as we were informed by the teachers, the plan states that the external testing will begin on June...

Gruevski announces, as if Prime Minister: Scholarships to the top 100 students

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE announced a new measure aimed at young people, called "Youth Ambassadors". The activity is aimed at students that will win a prize to one of the 12 International Science Olympics. “For the gold medal, a high school student will get 12,000 denars each month all year. For the silver medal, the winner will be paid after 12...

MON will not allow children from the Centre to go home early for the winter break

The Ministry of Education (MON) has rejected the request from the Municipality of Centre for children from seven primary schools in the area to be let home early for the winter break, due to the enormous air pollution. Mayor Andrej Zernovski, recently sent a request to the Ministry of Education to exempt children from classes due to high levels of...

The “Student Plenum” have again blocked the Rectory at UCAM, the Rector has promised them a meeting

Because the requirements were not considered of "Student plenum" in the period that its officials asked students today again blocked the entrance of the University "St. Cyril and Methodius". "As you all know, our demands were not addressed within the reasonable time limit. So today, we remain true to our word, so students from the "Student plenum" again came to block the...