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With false bombs against education: The frequent interruptions of the teaching process in North Macedonia create damaged generations

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...

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...

First 2 months with new elementary education concept in North Macedonia – are there results and what has to be changed?

Exactly two months have passed since the education authorities of North Macedonia have implemented the new Concept for the elementary education, which was heralded as the basis for the education reforms. The novelties planned in the document should improve the situation and follow the contemporary tendencies in education. After the system had underwent many changes in the past, with...

MoES: 42 students and 65 teachers infected with COVID-19, part of them attended lectures

Since the start of the school year, a total of 42 COVID-19 cases have been registered among the students and 65 among the teachers. Out of them, 29 are pupils from elementary school and 13 are high school students, while 47 of the teachers are elementary school teachers and 18 are of them are high school teachers, informed the...

In just five days of the school year, 53 students and 8 teachers ended up in isolation

From the beginning of the school year a total of 53 students and 8 teachers in North Macedonia ended up in isolation, and in all the schools where new cases of COVID-19 were registered, there is due dilligence in the physical aspect of the teaching process, the Ministry of Education and Science of North Macedonia reports. "Six out of total...

Research conducted by Metamorphosis Foundation: The teachers in North Macedonia are facing heavy challenges in online education

Research conducted by the Foundation for Internet and Society Metamorphosis, titled as "Conditions and challenges in the implementation of the online teaching process in elementary schools" shows that the teachers and students in North Macedonia face heavy challenges for the upcoming 2020/2021 school year. The situation with technical aids, most of all laptops and computers that are necessary for...

The schools will have to provide school materials to pupils who have no computers

The pandemic imposed new rules to which we will have to adjust to. This requires the protection of public health, but also learning at the same time. We offered a combined teaching system and in order to make it successful we are working on an online platform that will be presented soon, said new North Macedonia's Minister for Education...

Pupils will be allowed to take off their facemasks only during meals, there will not be any PTA meetings

The Government of North Macedonia has adopted the protocol for in-person education in primary and secondary schools. The education process in the schools throughout the country will start on the 1st of October, and until then the school managements will have to prepare the facilities in order for the education process to be accomplished. The health and education authorities have...

Reactions: Manual for learning system for teachers in North Macedonia useless

"Instructional manual for the use of the learning system management" is the title of the document published on the North Macedonia's Bureau for Development of Education's official webpage (BDE), that is supposed to be of use for the teachers for their professional career development. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BDE's management have created an online course titled "Performing...

Secondary education in North Macedonia didn’t provide conditions for quality distant learning

In 64% of the cases, the digital tools were used either rarely (once in two weeks or once a month) or not at all in the regular teaching process, and 51% of the students were never trained by their teachers how to use digital tools for the needs in the learning process. These are some of the findings of...

Atanasov: Prime Minister, you know best why we did not realize any changes in education!

Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Petar Atanasov, wrote a Facebook status saying that he was resigning from office, addressing the general public and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The reason for his decision, he wrote, is the Government's inability to implement the promises that were made. He also says that "the revolution has started to eat its own children". "In the...

Inspectorate: There are no computers or equipment, so there are no IT classes in schools

Due to the non-functional class of information technology, teachers are unable to realize (Information and Communications Technology) in their teaching. This was stated in the latest report by education inspectors, who also recommended that schools find a way to solve the issue of greater use of computers in lessons. Since schools do not have the ability to buy computer devices...

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...

An aggregator with video content will help teachers and students across the country

Today the Ministry of Education and Science has launched an aggregator of video content at www.eduvideos.mon.gov.mk where one can find presentations of the educational curricula. The aggregator, as noted Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Spiro Ristovski said teachers and students in primary and secondary schools, as well as parents can share educational videos related to the topics of the...

Teachers and professors protested against educational reforms

Teachers and professors from several primary and secondary schools in Macedonia today protested in front of the Ministry of Education and Science against the new educational reforms. During the protest, the teachers and professors expressed their dissatisfaction and asked to be invited to the debate on the new amendments. They, also, asked MES to stop the enforcement of Law on...

MESO: SONK erred in terminating the strike

The multi-ethnic education trade union (MESO) believes that the leadership of SONK made a mistake by breaking the strike and thus preventing the resolution of many issues in education. MESO assessed results of the negotiations between the Ministry of Education and Science and SONK about rewarding and penalizing teachers based on the results of external testing as insufficient and incomplete. "We...

Bitola teachers: Who performed a coup with the cessation of the strike?

Who performed the coup in the strike of SONK is the main dilemma of Bitola teachers after the cessation of the strike. Teachers from technical high school "Gjorgi Naumov" in Bitola, who were united from the first day of the strike, are today revolted because of the unanswered questions by SONK. Why did SONK end the strike, and strikers...

Ademi: Teachers who are on strike won’t receive salary

Teachers who protest won’t receive salary for January, said Minister of Education Abdilakim Ademi, answering to a question of a MP. - In the period of strike and when there are new requirements based on the collective agreement Article 54, item 2, the employer is obliged to pay only contributions for teachers who are on strike. Teachers are not aware...

External testing: East is being completely tested, west partially boycotts

General strike of teachers still lasts, and members of SONK do not participate in external testing, says Jakim Nedelkov, President of SONK. - There is a strike throughout Macedonia. We go to work, but do not performing work duties. Colleagues who are also members of SONK are on strike and they will not participate in external testing. It is known...

External testing is partially boycotted, strike continues partially

Today began the external testing of students in the third and fourth year of secondary school. Because of the strike of SONK, which lasts nearly a week, the external testing is not conducted in some schools, while it is conducted by the substitute teachers in others. - In high schools "Zef Ljush Marku" and "Arseni Jovkov" there is a boycott...