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Firms Still Lack Students Despite Higher Demand for Dual Education

Firms Still Lack Students Despite Higher Demand for Dual Education

Bratislava, September 14 (TASR) – The number of employers, schools and students joining the dual education system has doubled in the 2016/17 school year when compared its first year (2015-16), Jaroslav Holecek, President of the Employers’ Board for the Dual Education System, told a news conference on Wednesday. A total

Total of 1,773 Dissatisfied Teachers Launch Gradual Strike

Total of 1,773 Dissatisfied Teachers Launch Gradual Strike

Bratislava, September 13 (TASR) – A total of 1,773 teachers from 106 schools joined a gradual strike on Tuesday, representatives of the organiser – the Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU) – told TASR on the same day. Schools from all regions of Slovakia have joined the strike, with Bratislava, Kosice and Banska Bystrica

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,