Minister of Education and Science Renata Deskoska says politics should leave the education sector while investing efforts into the Skopje university's autonomy.

The number of high school students dropped by 15 thousand between 2013 and 2017, research carried out at the Institute for Strategic Research and Education (ISIE) has discovered.

The City of Skopje is launching a large-scale investment project envisaging reconstruction of the infrastructure of high schools across the Macedonian capital.

Education Minister Renata Treneska Deskoska held her first 100 days press conference on Monday and announced that fourth and eight grade books on civil education will be withdrawn following complaints about some of their content.

The 2017/2018 school year in public elementary and high schools in Macedonia will begin on September 4th, the Education Ministry informed.

Ministry of Education and Science informed that Government at its Tuesday’s session adopted decision that Cambridge programme will not be implemented in secondary education as of September.

The school year ends on Friday for 188.000 elementary school pupils and 80.000 high school students.

External testing in all elementary and secondary schools in Macedonia is repealed with the enactment of amendments to several laws, the Ministry of Education and Science says Friday.