15 January 2015
Professorial and student plenums still don’t plan taking any concrete steps after the MPs yesterday passed the Law on higher education. Representatives of both plenums say that they don’t intend to give up the demand for withdrawal of the disputed law, but they still don’t know what their next steps would be. Zhaneta Trajkovska from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
24 December 2014
A group of professors sent a request to the Committee on Education, Science and Sports and the Speaker of the Assembly demanding permission for representatives from the academic community and representatives of “Student plenum” to attend the session of the Commission. The demand was posted on Facebook by Professor Biljana Vankovska and it is backed […]
23 December 2014
Despite protests, anger and disapproval of most of the students and professors, the negative opinion of domestic and foreign experts, on 29th of December, MPs will vote on the package of measures in education. In today’s issue of the daily newspaper “Nova Makedonija”, commercial advertisement of 110 professors who signed an address in which they […]
21 December 2014
Several professors from world renowned universities wrote a letter to the students of informal student organization “Student plenum” as a support of the student protests against the introduction of a state exam. “When the institutions of higher education have become subject to state control, the critical thinking is a hostage to the dictates of those […]
16 December 2014
The possibility of new protests, as well as boycott of classes is not excluded if the Government continues with the same attitude to introduce state exam at the faculties, pointed out representatives of “Student’s plenum” at a press conference today. Students are appalled by the ignorance of the Government and say they would ask the […]
15 December 2014
Student plenum of Bitola University (UKLO) today submitted demands and legal arguments against the state exam to the Rector of the university. In the demands, students wrote that the Student Parliament should be canceled because it doesn’t represent students’ rights and because its structure can be easily pressured. Regarding the concept of the state exam, […]
14 December 2014
Professors harshly reacted to the new draft legal decisions the Government brought at the session yesterday. They say that, with the new measures, the Government only demeans the academic community and the people must go out and rebel because they lead to the selling out of the country. Professor Ljubomir Cuculovski says that he expected […]
10 December 2014
On its Twitter account, Student’s Plenum announced that the police apprehended the boy who recorded the student protest of aerial perspective with a drone. The following information is that the boy was released, while the footages and the drone remained in the police. MOI confirmed this information for META. Дечкoтo сo дрoнoт е приведен вo […]
10 December 2014
Students submitted a letter with demands to the Government at the end of the second student march organized by the informal student organization “Student Plenum”. Despite the pressure, the march was massive, with twice more people than the first march that took place on 17th of November. – The main argument in the letter is […]
27 November 2014
Minister of Education and Science, Abdilakim Ademi, will meet with the informal organization “Student plenum” once it has a concrete proposal for the external testing, reports “24 Vesti”. – In the forthcoming period, the Ministry of Education and Science will submit the first draft text of these laws for us, as a resource ministry, to […]
