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
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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.