Teachers demand 25 percent pay raise – Pupils get a lesson in staging a strike


Elementary school “Partenie Zografski” in Skopje’s Kisela Voda prolonged the pupils’ summer break yesterday. Their parents were notified that professors and teachers would be involved in the warning strikes of educators, so teaching lessons would start today. Just fifty meters further, the high schoolers came to the Vasil Antevski-Dren high school on their first school […]

Education DM Atanasov announces his resignation


Deputy Minister of Education and Science Petar Atanasov announced his resignation from the post, saying his position is unattainable and ineffective, while changes in the sector have not materialized. “It was with great pleasure and faith that I took the post, which I have held for the past 10 months. I entered a system that not […]

Macedonia, the land of deformities


Macedonians are an insufficiently physically active people. The data from recent research by non-governmental organizations, the Institute of Public Health and the Faculty of Physical Education are devastating. The problem is systemic, and the system does not recognize or relate to it. And it is very present. Especially in pre-school and class studies, from the […]

Eleven Education Ministers in 18 years


Eleven ministers have governed the education and science department in the past eighteen years. Five ministers spent about a year in office since 2000, and as many ministers were in office for nearly two years as head of the education department. The frequent changes of  ministers in one of the most important departments, where policies, […]

Minister Deskoska: Politics out of education


 Minister of Education and Science Renata Deskoska says politics should leave the education sector while investing efforts into the Skopje university’s autonomy. “The main objective of the ministry is to remove politics from the education. Being part of the education system prior to assuming this post, I know about the political pressure on the University. […]