From mentor at alb-net.com Thu Jan 22 13:10:27 2004 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Albanians in Macedonia Crisis Center News & Information) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:10:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Prishtina-l] [AMCC-News] Tetova University legalized as STATE UNIVERSITY IN TETOVO Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCC http://www.alb-net.com/amcc/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.mia.com.mk/ang/Vest.asp?vest=%5C1%5CCopy%20of%20sobranie%2051.htm PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW ON ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY IN TETOVO Skopje, January 21 (MIA) - The Macedonian Parliament passed Wednesday the law for establishment of a state university in Tetovo with 68 votes "for". VMRO-DPMNE and Liberal Party deputies left the session during the vote. "VMRO-DPMNE deputy group tried to point out the damage from passing such a law. VMRO-DPMNE will not take part in the voting process. We do not want to carry the historic burden, because the biggest responsibility lies on the ones that will vote 'for'. History will tell who is right", VMRO-DPMNE deputy Zarko Karadzoski stated. Slobodan Danevski from the Liberal Party said that they were not ready to vote on the law, because, according to him, it was very weak in the normative part. Prior to this, Minister of Education and Science Azis Polozani did not accept any of the law amendments. The opposition deputies asked for an explanation from Polozani about the contradictory issues that appear in the financing of education. On one hand, there is an increase of prices in student dormitories, but on the other the Ministry is being renovated, along with the purchase of the building of ZIK "Kumanovo" for Euro 750,000, thus creating segregation of secondary education. As stated in the legal text, one of the basic reasons for passing of this Law is the need for creation of normative-legal framework for a larger access in higher education of the community members, especially the Albanian one. This university will be comprised of Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Humanist Sciences and Arts, Faculty of Economy, Law Faculty and Center of Polytechnic Studies, as well as a higher expert school. The means for financing of the University will be provided from the Budget and other sources determined by law. The 51st Parliament session will continue after a break, and its agenda contains the draft-laws on citizenship, industrial property and elementary education. The deputies should also review the draft-declaration on Macedonia's request for EU membership, as well as the draft-declaration for support of the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. ev/ik/13:06/mia/MTnet/ ______________________________________________________________ If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message to: amcc-news-unsubscribe at alb-net.com , or visit AMCC-NEWS's page at: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/amcc-news