Education

The Turkish Education Ministry's "Century of Turkey" program has received final approval, which means that the "Blue Homeland" (Mavi Vatan) doctrine regarding Ankara's maritime claims in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean now has a place in the school textbooks of the neighboring country.

The stake in Education is to achieve, through the "Educated Romania" project, whose implementation will be approved by the Government this week, "the 21st century education for the 21st century Romania", Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Monday at the opening ceremony of the new school year at the "Gheorghe Lazar" National College, the first high school in Bucharest that carries out a pilot pr

Greece's Education Minister Niki Kerameus pledged to abide by two court rulings regarding the way religion is taught at the country's public high schools and the procedure to seek exemption from the course.

How about working not five days, but four days a week? Perhaps at the moment this seems to be impossible, but many employers are now considering shortening the number of working days in order to attract more employees and stimulate the productivity of their staff.

Bulgaria's Education Minister Todor Tanev is expected to submit his resignation on Monday. 

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov demanded the resignation of Tanev on Thursday due to the systematic problems in the education sector and the proposed controversial changes to the school curriculum which have not been subject to broad public discussion.

Bulgaria and China have signed an educational exchange agreement to fully tap into the development potential of that specific sector of bilateral relations, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said on Thursday.

The school year starts today for nearly 758 000 students and 68 891 teachers in 2564 schools across Bulgaria.

September 15, 2015 is the first day of school for around 65 000 first-graders, according to reports of Bulgaria's Education Minister, Todor Tanev, as cited by dnevnik.bg.

Some ten thousand pupils and students on Thursday demanded the resignation of Macedonia's Education Minister, Abdualaqim Ademi, and a halt to externally controlled state-run graduation exams.

BELGRADE - The 4th world conference of young ecologists, intended for students of master and doctoral studies that focus on environment protection, has started at the Petnica Research Station, near Valjevo, with 110 participants from 26 countries.

BELGRADE - Education ministers and their deputies from Southeastern Europe, including Serbia's Education Minister Srdjan Verbic, gathered in Tirana on Monday for a conference organised by the European Training Foundation (ETF) and sponsored by the Albanian government led by Prime Minister Edi Rama.