provides an opportunity to improve textbooks, the state secretary for primary education at the Science, Education and Sports Ministry, Nevio Setic, said in a comment on President Stjepan Mesic's statement that the reform of the schooling system should include a revision of history textbooks.
President Mesic said two days ago that the reform of the education system should include a revision of history textbooks so that students could be taught about the World War II Ustasha regime in the right way.
Ivan Dukic, one of the authors of the HNOS, told Wednesday's Jutarnji List daily that as an anti-fascist country Croatia had taken a clear position on the Independent State of Croatia (1941-45), the crimes that occurred at the time (genocide and the Holocaust) and executions in at the end and after WWII. The HNOS will include new history textbooks, to be published in four years.
At the beginning of his term, Science, Education and Sports Minister Dragan Primorac started cooperation with the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre from Jerusalem. So far some 20 teachers have been sent to the Yad Vashem centre to undergo training so they could be able to teach about the Holocaust and serve as a link between Croatian and foreign institutions dealing with the Holocaust.