The Minister of Education and Science, Vesna Janevska, said today that from the first to the ninth grade for the coming school year, there will be textbooks for all grades, except for foreign languages. He added that hundreds of thousands of textbooks are currently being printed, some of them have been distributed, and the distribution of some of them will start after they are printed, and he emphasized that from next year there will be foreign language textbooks.

"There will be textbooks for all classes. I emphasize, as many years ago, unfortunately, not through my fault, because the procedure is still in certain procedures, there will be no textbooks for foreign languages. But there will be textbooks for foreign languages ​​next year and there will be no printed, that is, paper material for the languages ​​of the communities, which will be published on the website of the Bureau of Education, and since it is a language, teachers using those materials will they can teach the students. The language is alive, you know, children start learning it from the series. The point is for them to understand and speak, not to learn the grammar of foreign languages ​​for them - nouns, pronouns and so on, I think that this will not be a problem, and next year we will have that too, added Janevska, answering a journalist's question during the inspection of the activities for the construction of a sports hall within the primary school "Naum Ohridski" in the village of Bulacani.

She confirmed that the textbooks for the seventh grade will be printed according to the old program.

"Yes, for the seventh they are printed according to the old program because we put the new programs on public discussion. At a public hearing for both seventh and eighth grade. Due to the great dissatisfaction of all stakeholders in education, we put them on a public hearing so that we could adopt the remarks, which are generally made by teachers, but also by parents, in order to make the program more acceptable to students, and also to teachers, because they are the ones who they teach the students, explained the minister.

When the public debate is over, she added, the Education Development Bureau will start preparing the revised new curriculum.

- The corrected program from the conception, as we promised, with the most significant part being the separation of the subjects for which there was a heated discussion and an explicit request that they should be separated, and that will be done, she said.

Asked about the textbooks for secondary vocational education, the minister stated that the entire edition for the first year is in print and all the approved textbooks for the second year.

- So, the process was not completed for the second, third and fourth grades, but we will intensify it and as the textbooks are approved, they will go to press throughout the year. There is no need for us to wait, because we have a framework agreement with the printing house, if it ends we can immediately announce a new tender and start preparing for the textbooks for next year, Janevska added.