Ministry of Education

Turkey’s National Education Council, an educational advisory body, decided over the weekend before last to recommend the Ministry of Education that Ottoman-language classes should be compulsory for religious high schools and electives for others.

Education sector unions continue strike

BELGRADE -- Education sector workers in Serbia have been striking since Monday by cutting classes to 30 from 45 minutes.

This has been taking place in those schools where four trade unions have their representatives, Jasna Janković of the Association of Trade Unions of Education Workers told Tanjug on Monday.

BELGRADE - About 0.34 percent of Serbia's budget was set aside for science this year, which is not enough, and the amount should increase significantly in the coming year, said participants in Tuesday's debate at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) on the status and prospects for science in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Michel Davenport, head of the EU delegation in Serbia, expressed belief on Friday that the new composition of the European Commission will result in intensification of relations and acceleration of the European integration process.

If Parliament approves the draft bill on Highway Traffic Regulation, the information pertaining to what vehicles the license holder is permitted to drive will be increased, according to a letter that has been sent by the Ministry of Education.

Minister of National Education Remus Pricopie and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova decided on Friday in Paris to have a technical working group set up, composed of UNESCO and Education Ministry representatives, tasked with conceiving the projects the two institutions will cooperate on in the next six years.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Faculties of the University of Pristina (PU) with the temporary seat in Kosovska Mitrovica enrolled 1,264 new students in the academic year 2014/2015 out of the planned 1,776, which is the quota set by the Ministry of Education.

Ethnic Albanian parties in Montenegro protested on Tuesday against the "inadequate curriculum" their children are offered in schools in Montenegro.

They said that teaching programs in schools are not adapted to the needs of the community as the textbooks are only translations into Albanian of books written in the Montenegrin language.

Some 64,000 Bulgarian children will go to school for the first time on Monday, September 15.

The cost for preparing a child for school ranges between BGN 150 and BGN 250 this year, Nova TV notes.

BELGRADE - Members of the Serbian parliament adopted on Wednesday the Bill amending and modifying the Law on Higher Education, which, among other things, provides for shortening the time needed to recognize foreign education diplomas, which should help bring young domestic experts back to Serbia.