Serbian minister blames lack of Albanian textbooks on minority council (N1, FoNet)
Serbian Education Minister Mladen Sarcevic on Thursday accused the Albanian national minority’s representative body of obstructing efforts to secure textbooks for Albanian school children. “The issue of textbooks for Albanian pupils is being obstructed by the National Council of the Albanian minority,” he said. National minorities in Serbia elect their own national councils as representative […]
Read More →Education in central Kosovo and its problems discussed at the Gracanica Civic Energy Center (KIM radio)
Poor working conditions, insufficient space, reduced hours and work in shifts, transportation of students, delivery of books is some of the burdens on the education in central Kosovo, KIM radio reported. However, the quality of children’s education depends mostly on the teachers, agree the participants in the education debate held at the Civic Energy Center […]
Read More →Kosovo Serbs: No compromise over University of Pristina with the seat in Mitrovica North (RTS)
The Pristina University with the seat in Mitrovica North was, is and will be part of the educational system of the Republic of Serbia, and there is no compromise about it, said Rade Grbic, Rector of the University. The Serbian List MP in the Assembly of Kosovo, Igor Simic says that none of the Serbian […]
Read More →The Serbian University in North Mitrovica classified as a Kosovan institution by the draft of the Kosovo Law on Higher Education (KoSSev)
The draft of the Kosovo Law on Higher Education classifies the University of North Mitrovica as a public Kosovo institution of higher education. The votes of at least four deputies representing the Serb community in the Kosovo Assembly are required in order for this law to be adopted. This draft, which was proposed in November […]
Read More →OSCE: Report on communities’ access to pre-university education in Kosovo (Kontakt plus radio)
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo published yesterday a report which assesses the access to pre-university education for non-majority communities in Kosovo. The report, Communities’ Access to Pre-University Education in Kosovo, covers the period from 2014 to 2017 and looks into the provision of education in the majority and community languages. The report notes that institutions […]
Read More →Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: “We must not forget Srebrenica” (B92)
By Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Every 11 July since 1995, thousands of people gather in Potočari to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide, the most horrific crime committed in Europe since WWII. Survivors and victims’ families demand justice, recognition and respect. In a few days of that July of twenty-three years ago, […]
Read More →Kosovo Minister of Education: Serbian schools in Kosovo continue to work under the system of Serbia (Blic, KIM radio, Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Shyqiri Bytyqi, said that the Serbian schools in Kosovo continue to implement the system of the Republic of Serbia, as well as that they do not submit reports to the said ministry, Belgrade based daily Blic reports, quoting the Pristina’s portal Telegrafi. Bytyqi claimed that attempts were made […]
Read More →Classes in primary school in Gracanica in dining room, hallway, and teachers’ room (KIM radio)
The building of the elementary school in Gracanica, Kralj Milutin (King Milutin), beside the pupils of that school, is a place and for pupils of two secondary schools as well as the pupils of elementary music school, reports KIM radio. The director of this school, Vladimir Milkic, told KIM Radio that this situation lasts since […]
Read More →Formerly radicalized teens denied access to education (Prishtina Insight)
An investigation reveals that a discrepancy between the Kosovo Correctional Service and the Ministry of Education is leaving teenagers who attempted to join terrorist organizations out of school. With little money, two 16-year-old boys, one from Viti and the other from Gjilan, checked into Prishtina International Airport to board a flight to Turkey, hoping to […]
Read More →Serbian University in Kosovo, whose is it? (Vesti)
The sudden announcement of Pristina that soon may start talks on the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), for number of Serbs who work in institutions such as the judiciary, health and education has created the fear of falling “into the hands” of Kosovo’s systems. The fear that they could be manipulated by the Pristina reflects […]
Read More →Simić: We want Serbia to manage education in Serbian language in Kosovo (KIM radio)
Serbian deputies do not agree that Kosovo regulates the work of the Serbian education system in Kosovo, said Slavko Simić to RTV KiM. Simić says that recent allegations of the Serbian National Forum (SNF) are not true. The SNF accused the President of the Serbian List of trying to merge University of Pristina (relocated in […]
Read More →Šarčević: Our education in Kosovo will survive and thrive (Blic)
Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development, Mladen Šarčević in Gračanica wished the pupils, in the system of the Republic of Serbia, a happy beginning of the school year. On that occasion he said that the Serbian education would survive and thrive in the southern province. The Minister stressed that he intends to often stay […]
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