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Macedonian high school students protest over testing requirement
Less than a month after the Macedonian government scrapped new university exam rules under student pressure, high school students took to the streets to demand an end to pre-graduation testing requirements.
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Macedonian student protests defeat new exam system
Macedonia has agreed to abandon a new law that had called for university students to sit externally supervised exams.
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University enrollment plunges in Romania
The number of students attending Romania’s universities fell by nearly half from 2009 to 2013.
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Albanian government expected to push ahead with controversial education reforms
Major changes to Albania’s higher education system are in the works despite protests from students who say their voice has been ignored, Balkan Insight reports. The changes, originally proposed by […]
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Macedonia courts student fury with exam law
Students and university professors have announced more protests after parliament went ahead with adoption of a controversial plan to introduce compulsory external, state-supervised exams for graduates.
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Howard Clark’s scholarship: commitment and contribution
April Carter explores Howard Clark’s academic contribution to the study of nonviolent action.
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Teaching about the Unspeakable
Model International Criminal Court Western Balkans (MICC WeB) is a unique project currently being implemented in former Yugoslavia.
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Teachers continue strike over Serbian austerity measures
Serbian teachers intensified protests over job and wage cuts 22 December as parliament began talks on a 2015 draft budget that would further slash the public-sector workforce.
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History educators finalize a new multi-perspective teaching resource on sensitive and controversial history in the Western Balkans 1900-1945
The latest EUROCLIO collaborative educational publication “Once Upon A Time … We Lived Together: Joint Work in a Multi-perspective Approach” is now available in 8 languages, for free in full, […]
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Creative center for boosting children’s language and math skills opened in Skopje, Macedonia
The Foundation for Education and Cultural Initiatives “Step by Step” – Macedonia opened the first Children’s Creative Center for fostering early-grade language and math literacy. It is the first activity […]
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