14 January 2015
About 150 professors, students and citizens that support them, with candles in hand gathered tonight before the Assembly to bury higher education. The funeral of higher education started half an hour after MPs adopted amendments to the Law on higher education. Members of the plenums say the decision for the funeral of higher education to […]
14 January 2015
“Student plenum” responded to the adoption of the Law on higher education. On their Facebook page, they wrote that the autonomy of universities and the idea that students are part of this society are buried this way. “University is for the students, it exists and develops for them. You just passed a law that doesn’t […]
14 January 2015
After hours of debate, with 67 votes “for” and nine “against”, MPs of the Assembly adopted amendments to the Law on higher education which provides for the introduction of a state exam and the selection criteria in the titles is being changed. Minister of Education Abdilakim Ademi said that the Government accepts the amendment that […]
13 January 2015
The governments of Montenegro and the Netherlands organized a two-day regional conference on 11th and 12th of December in Budva (Montenegro) on the topic cooperation in the judicial chain. The conference was attended by all potential EU member states from the Western Balkans with delegates from various institutions that are part of the so-called judicial […]
12 January 2015
When deciding whether to sign the bill on higher education, President Gjorgje Ivanov will perform as a statesman, not a teacher. He communicated this to the representatives of the professorial and the student plenum at today’s meeting, on which they asked him to veto the amendments. At the meeting with Ivanov, which lasted one hour […]
10 January 2015
Representatives of the “Professorial plenum” today sent a letter to the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Gjorgje Ivanov, requesting a meeting on which the representatives of the professorial and the student plenum would explain their views on the proposed amendments to the Law on higher education, which will soon be put on the agenda […]
9 January 2015
“Professorial plenum” sent a letter to European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Enlargement of the European Union, Johannes Hahn, and the head of the EU delegation in the country, Aivo Orav, urging them to state their opinion and to appeal to the Government to withdraw the proposed Law […]
7 January 2015
The initiative “Professorial plenum” today released a statement saying that they have only one suggestion to the Government for amendments to the Law on higher education (state exam), and it is they to be immediately withdrawn. “Dear Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, with great pleasure, Professorial plenum informs you that it has one […]
30 December 2014
On 8th of January, one day after Christmas, the members of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Sports will discuss amendments to the Law on higher education during its second reading. The same committee also scheduled the discussions for the laws on primary and secondary education in the second reading. MPs adopted the conclusions […]
28 December 2014
Professors wrote an open letter to MPs. In the letter, the professors urge MPs to stop further proceedings and to hear them out before making a decision that could cost the whole society dearly. We are publishing part of the letter, and you can find the whole letter at “Fakulteti.mk”. “Respected MPs, soon before you […]
28 December 2014
Tomorrow at 11 am, in front of the Assembly, “Student plenum” and “Professorial plenum” will organize an open session. Issues of organizing mass demonstrations because of the revolt, as well as the manner of organized resistance to the proposed changes in the Law on higher education, will be discussed at the joint session. The event […]
