BELI MANASTIR, 14 July (Hina) - As of 1 September 1997, primary and secondary schools in the Croatian Danube river region will work according to the Croatian curriculum, with the possibility of bilingual education for minority
members, Assistant Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Bozica Simlesa, stated in Beli Manastir, Monday, after a meeting with the heads of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the U.N.-administrated parts of Osijek County.
UCATION SYSTEM
BELI MANASTIR, 14 July (Hina) - As of 1 September 1997, primary and
secondary schools in the Croatian Danube river region will work
according to the Croatian curriculum, with the possibility of bilingual
education for minority members, Assistant Minister of Education, Culture
and Sports, Bozica Simlesa, stated in Beli Manastir, Monday, after a
meeting with the heads of primary and secondary schools and
kindergartens in the U.N.-administrated parts of Osijek County. #L#
The meeting was attended by an Assistant Minister of Education,
Culture and Sports, Stjepan Lice, the head of the Osijek County Office
for Education, Ksenija Zbozil, deputy head of the Vukovar County Office
for Education, Heda Voholski, and a UNTAES representative Robert Gravel,
General Klein's executive secretary for civil questions. #L#
During the several-hour meeting, the two sides discussed the
particulars concerning the establishment of the Croatian education
system and the take over of primary and secondary schools.
Zbozil stressed that commissions would visit all schools in the
region so as to inspect the situation in them.
So far, 260 school diplomas have been exchanged in the U.N.-
administered area, Zbozil said, adding that that number was small.
The beginning of the new school year is approaching and one should
see that everything is ready so that classes can be organised according
to the Croatian education system, Assistant Minister Lice said.
The Croatian Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports would not
cancel the existing programs, Assistant Minister Simlesa said, adding
that it was not true that pupils who had exchanged their certificates
could not enrol schools and colleges in Serbia of elsewhere.
'That is not true because the certificates have to be validated,
which is a normal procedure between states', Simlesa said.
There are 15 primary and secondary schools in the U.N.-administered
parts of Osijek County.
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