ZAGREB ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - A round table discussion on the future of education in Croatia was held in Zagreb on Saturday on the occasion of World Teachers' Day, October 5. The event was organised by an association called The March
of Peace and Revival: We Want to Learn, Work and Live.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - A round table discussion on the future of
education in Croatia was held in Zagreb on Saturday on the occasion
of World Teachers' Day, October 5. The event was organised by an
association called The March of Peace and Revival: We Want to Learn,
Work and Live. #L#
Some 20 teachers, representatives of political parties and
associations warned during the debate that teachers in Croatia were
an underprivileged category.
Speaking about economic development and education, the head of the
Croatian Society of (former) Political Prisoners, Marko Veselica,
said that only seven percent of Croatia's population had higher
education diplomas, as against the European average of 25 percent.
Almost 20 percent of people in Croatia are illiterate, and of the
210,000 high school students, 30 percent drop out, said Veselica.
He added that a modern education system was based on the model of
teaching students how to learn.
A former teachers' union leader, Vesna Kanizaj, accused the
authorities of being incapable of devising an education concept.
"The ruling Social Democratic Party did not want to accept the
concept of the free school, with free choice of the world view, and
parent involvement," Kanizaj said.
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