Macedonia
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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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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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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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REF grantees recognized with three Roma integration awards from the European Commission
Three grantees of the Roma Education Fund (REF) received top prizes for their innovative work at the European Commission’s Roma Integration Award Ceremony in October. Among the four REF-supported nominees […]
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Macedonian authorities claim social networks ‘have always been blocked’ in university dorms
Censorship of freedom of expression by Macedonian authorities is nothing new, but seems to be developing in the small southeast European country.
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New studies program in Skopje focuses on family values, ‘deviance’
A new studies program at Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje teaches that homosexuality, divorce, and drug addiction are “socio-pathological problems” and deviant behavior that can and should be prevented with strong family values.
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Macedonian students demanding better living conditions called ‘unpatriotic’
In early March 2014, Macedonian students demanding better life conditions in state university dormitories published a blog entitled “Operation Dorm” that was accompanied by photos of inadequate living conditions in the facilities.
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Readers are Leaders
Literacy and Math for Intellectual Growth of Early Grade Students in Macedonia
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