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Plavcan Expects Challenging School Year for All Employees in Education

Plavcan Expects Challenging School Year for All Employees in Education

Bratislava, September 5 (TASR) – The new 2016-17 school year will be a challenge for all those working in the education system, as individual reforms of the system are expected to be implemented, said Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Peter Plavcan (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) at the official

Dissatisfied Teachers Call Again on Cabinet to Fulfill Their Demands

Dissatisfied Teachers Call Again on Cabinet to Fulfill Their Demands

Bratislava, September 2 (TASR) – The Initiative of Slovak Teachers (ISU) on Friday sent once again a call to the Government to fulfil the requirements they have been calling for long term, TASR learnt on the same day. Dissatisfied teachers want the Cabinet as well as Parliament to increase the salaries

Madaric: BBSK Acting Stupidly with First Slovak Grammar School

Madaric: BBSK Acting Stupidly with First Slovak Grammar School

Revuca, August 3 (TASR) – Putting obstacles in the way of a €30,000-grant for the First Slovak Grammar School in Revuca (Banska Bystrica region) by regional authority (BBSK) led by governor Marian Kotleba (far-right LSNS) is stupid, ignorant and anti-Slovak, Culture Minister Marek Madaric stated in Revuca on Wednesday. First

World Esperanto Congress Begins in Nitra at Weekend

World Esperanto Congress Begins in Nitra at Weekend

Nitra, July 22 (TASR) – Around 1,300 esperanto aficionados from 60 countries will meet in Nitra between July 23-30 at the 101st World Esperanto Congress, TASR learnt on Friday. Devoted to ‘Social Justice-Language Justice’, this is going to be the first world esperanto congress ever organised in Slovakia. “Nitra is

Scientists Protesting against Cuts Worth €1 million from SAV Budget

Scientists Protesting against Cuts Worth €1 million from SAV Budget

Bratislava July 21 (TASR) – Scientists and university lecturers are rejecting the Finance Ministry’s proposal to cut more than €1 million from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) budget, TASR learnt on Thursday. The Finance Ministry has recently asked SAV to draft measures by which SAV will economise the money,

Foreign Students to Improve Their Slovak at Summer University

Foreign Students to Improve Their Slovak at Summer University

Bratislava July 4 (TASR) – Students from the United States, Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico and Ukraine will improve their Slovak language skills and explore Slovak culture and history over the next three weeks, with the Summer University of the Slovak Language and Culture for Foreigners opening on Monday, TASR learnt on

French International School in Bratislava Was Inaugurated on Friday

French International School in Bratislava Was Inaugurated on Friday

Bratislava, June 10 (TASR) – The French International School (Ecole Francaise Internationale) in Bratislava was ceremonially inaugurated on Friday with Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Peter Plavcan (SNS nominee) and French Ambassador to Slovakia Didier Lopinot in attendance. “Opening of the school at this new place in the Bratislava borough