Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination; the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Thank you. Annex In high schools attended by Roma children, another project has been implemented by the Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia entitled "Scholarship and Mentoring Program for Roma Students in High Schools". The objectives of this mentoring system is to offer and provide assistance and support to each student in order to be able to overcome the problems and impediments encountered during his/her schooling and education, to achieve better grades, to improve behavior marks, to reduce absence from school, to misc personal awareness about the necessity of education, to increase the capacity for self-education, to continue the education at higher university level, to ensure socialization and acquisition of working habits, etc. The AESSEK proje ct "Building Bridge s" is targe te d at achie ving a gre ate r social cohe sion amongst young pe ople . Furthe rmore , the obje ctive of the Europe an Move me nt Proje ct is to incre ase t h e knowle dge of high school stude nts about institutions, functions and role of the Europe an Union and othe r Europe an organkmtions and institutions. The OSCE Spillove r Monitor Mission to Skopje has been implementing another project the pupils are exposed to and learning about children's rights, and the necessity to respect these rights. In the framework of the project implemented by the Council of Europe , many multicultural clubs have be e n cre ate d in a large numbe r of schools throughout the country, with the principal aim to incre ase the aware ne ss of stude nts about the ne e d for inte rcultural unde rstanding and tole rance . The number of students enrolled at Universities is constantly increasing, and including the academic year 2003/2004. After the opening of the State University in Tetovo, which have had a total of 2,350 students in the two accredited academic years during 2004/2005, the total number of Albanian students amounts to more than 15.5% of the entire student population in all universities in the country. To encourage the use of languages of other communities, the Ministry of Education issued a decision ensuring Vlach language and literature to be studied at the Pedagogy Faculty in Stip. It is also planned to implement a special project to study Roma language and literature as an optional subject matter at one of the departments within the Philological Faculty.

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