Early childhood education

"We ate spaghetti, a cake and apples today... I liked the cake the most... but the apples were bitter," six-year-old Ivan complains as his mother, Miljana, takes him home from the Rade Jovcevski-Korcagin kindergarten in Skopje.

Students starting first grade, fifth grade and preschool classes began the school year yesterday, a week before the rest of Turkey’s students.

A total of 160 million euros in European Union and state funding has been set aside for some 68,000 children from low-income families to attend kindergartens and creches for free from September, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said on Tuesday.