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Over 2,000 professors signed the list for support of student protests in Serbia
The list of university professors who signed an open letter expressing support for the Serbian students and their demands constantly grows, and has surpassed 2,000 names so far, Nova.rs reported.
"Dear citizens of Serbia, us, the teachers, associates and researchers of the Serbian universities, stand firmly besides our students in the common struggle for better society," claim the professors from...
How Macedonian Students Supported the Struggle of Their Serbian Peers
Students in North Macedonia have expressed their solidarity with their peers in Serbia, who have been fighting for justice and accountability for several weeks. Amid the intensified protests and blockades of Serbian universities, Macedonian student organizations have stated that the student voice is the backbone of democracy and that any attempt to repress it is an attack on critical...
Music and Hatred: How a Song Caused Ethnic Tensions at a Student Party in Skopje
A student party in Skopje this spring took an unexpected turn when playing an Albanian song towards the end of the event sparked controversy and hate speech on social media. Despite the organization’s inclusive nature, which includes members from diverse ethnic backgrounds, a nationalist group named “Patriotsko drushtvo” (Patriotic Society) on Instagram, self-proclaimed as a “young, ambitious group of...
Four pupils injured in attack at western German school
Four pupils at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal were injured, at least two of them seriously, in an attack on Thursday, according to police and officials.
The suspected attacker, who is in custody, is believed to be a 17-year-old male pupil at the school, said Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine...
Harvard students walked out of Israeli consul’s lecture but in 2019
hoto: Screenshot from the video
This event really happened, but not recently – November 2023, and not as an expression of solidarity with more than 4 thousand brutally killed children, as the Facebook post claims, but in 2019. The video clip was published by the Мiddle East Eye media outlet on 14 November 2019. Therefore, the event shown in the...
University strike action and protests to hit over 50 German cities
University employees and students in Germany were set to protest on Monday to demand better pay, according to the Verdi trade union, writes German news agency DPA.
The motto of the university action day is "Put an end to precarious science," according to the union.
Organizers have planned events in more than 50 cities, including Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main,...
Survey: Most German students have used ChatGPT for homework
Around a year after the hype surrounding ChatGPT began, tools like this have arrived in the everyday educational lives of many young people in Germany, according to a new survey, writes the news agency DPA.
The survey found that 68% of school pupils, trainees and university students have already used ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for homework or...
German universities increasingly popular with foreign students
German universities are becoming increasingly popular destinations for foreign students, with a record 370,000 enrolled foreign students during this past winter's academic term, according to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), writes German news agency DPA.
India has replaced China as the top country of origin for foreign students in Germany, according to DAAD's figures, which were released on Thursday....
A three-day training “Combating disinformation and fact-checking” was held in Struga
A dozen of young people from the South-West Region and Pelagonija participated in the three-day workshop on the fight against disinformation and fact-checking, that took place in Struga from 22nd to 24th March. The training was organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
Trainers of the workshop were three journalists - the Chief...
The promised uniforms and tablets for students in Shtip are nowhere to be seen, though there are projectors in some classrooms
Photo: HalGatewood, Unsplash
In his election manifesto titled “We Vouch for Shtip; Create New Future”, the Mayor of the Municipality of Shtip, Ivan Jordanov promised to provide new computers/tablets for every primary school student by the end of 2022. In addition, Jordanov has promised to secure uniforms for primary school students, as well as projectors for every classroom in the...
In case of cyber violence, young people should turn to a trustworthy adult
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 8th of December 2022)
Parents should teach their children about the limits of privacy in the physical and the online world, while at the same time, a solution should be provided to secure support for young people. These were the main conclusions from the debate in the...
The digitization of the admission in the student dormitories in Skopje has still not been implemented
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...
Next school year in NMacedonia starts on the 1st of September, every following one is going to start on the 10th of September
Primary and secondary school students in North Macedonia are returning to the classrooms on the 1st of September, although there was an idea for the school year to start 10 days later, that is, on the 12th of September, confirmed for Meta.mk the Minister of Education and Science, Jeton Shaqiri.
Neverhteless, as he announced, starting from the next shool year,...
Young people in North Macedonia wait for appointment at psychologist’s office for two months
The primary and secondary school pupils, but also the undergraduate students in North Macedonia, should have access to free counseling centers, where they will be able to discuss their problems and talk freely about everything which is bothering them. This is the conclusion from the online debate that took place on the 27th of April 2022, organized by the...
North Macedonia: 91% of the students request psychological counseling at faculties
The need to talk more and more about mental health is increasing every day, so in the developed countries in Europe and the world, psychological support or counseling is provided for the employees at their workplace. The same has been offered by universities to their students for years by providing support and counseling from professionals.
In North Macedonia, there are...
University students confused by Government of North Macedonia’s recommendation about teaching with physical presence
Government of North Macedonia's recommendation that the teaching activities at the faculties of the universities in the country should continue with a physical presence, dazed both the universities and the students. Most of the higher education institutions that have implemented a combined teaching model in the past two years will continue with it until the end of the current...
North Macedonia: Low salaries deter young students from choosing teaching careers
The low salaries and the sizable administrative work in the education, but also the disrespect toward the teaching profession, is the reason that fewer and fewer prospective students in North Macedonia are choosing university studies in mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology. There are elementary and secondary schools that are facing a lack of computer science teachers, so they often...
Pupils in North Macedonia simulate murders from Squid Game, psychologists warn of its dangerous impact
During the breaks, pupils across North Macedonia are simulating murders and are completing other violent challenges copied from the popular South Korean TV series Squid Game.
This TV show provoked fierce reactions due to its negative effects on the children and the young people, and in some countries the authorities have recommended that the parents should not allow their children...
Three Macedonian students raised half a million dollars to develop a tool – Howitzer for marketing at Reddit
Nikola Velkovski, Stefan Kotevski and Tomislav Jurukovski are the three Macedonian students that study at FEIT i.e. the FON University and who were granted 500.000 USD pre-seed investment agreement for the development of their marketing tool.
The Venture capital company DayOne Capital that invests in projects in order to allow a world ranking for solving all kinds of problems and...
We need ‘painless’ glucose monitors, says Mia Chichkarikj, a 16 year old diabetes patient
Mia Chichkarikj is 16-years old third-year student in the Orce Nikolov Gymnasium in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. What makes this young girl a true fighter is that every day for the past 10 years, she has been facing the challenges that Type 1 juvenile diabetes has thrown at her. No other medicine can help her but insulin...
