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14.08.2008 In July 2008, the first generation of students of United World College in Mostar (UWCiM) completed their studies for the IB Diploma, and were issued with their final results. A total of 88 students were enrolled while 86% obtained the IB Diploma. The average grade for students who passed the Diploma was 31 points out of a possible total of 45 points. Of the total number of students, exactly half (44 students) obtained 30 or more points. Of these, 28 students were from BiH.

21.07.2008 In its efforts to support the recognizable model of post-conflict education that is taught at UWCiM, Czech Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs donated books to broaden and enrich process of learning for 200 UWCiM`s students from all around the world. Thanks to the donation United World College in Mostar will begin next school year offering 129 new valuable books to its students and teachers.

23.06.2008 Branko Lukovac, Ambassador of Montenegro to Croatia and the State Secretary of Higher Education of Croatia Radovan Fuks signed the Memorandum of Cooperation which covers, among other issues, the cooperation of the two countries in the field of doctoral studies.

13.05.2008 The Youth Education Forum (MOF) accused the Student Union at the `Kiril and Metodij` University in Skopje (SSUKM) of neglect of the Constitutional Court ruling to delete provisions in articles 56 and 106 of the University Statute, on MOF`s initiative.

19.03.2008 ACIPS (Alumni Association of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies) has worked for years to find solution to problems of higher education that result in inability for those who earned university degrees abroad to get their diplomas recognized in B&H and continue their education in the country.

12.11.2007 A Study on Youth Employment conducted by the AGENDA Institute and MJAFT Movement, with the support of the World Bank, shows that Albania remains in huge problems regarding employment related issues.

24.08.2007 Representatives of the Youth Education Forum (YEF) will defend the 15 amendments they submitted to the Parliamentary Committee for Education in today’s session of the Committee that will discuss the Draft-Law on Higher Education prior to its entry into the plenary debate.

27.07.2007 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights demands from the organizers of the Pristina Summer University to apologize to the participants and the general public for its discriminatory practices.

18.07.2007 The representatives of the best university students in Macedonia arrived in Vienna, their first destination on the trip organized under the Travel to Europe project.

25.06.2007 As a part of its Student Programme and the long fight to increase the quality of higher education in Macedonia, the Youth Education Forum (YEF) submitted its amendments to the Draft-Law on Higher Education to all political parties and independent representatives in the Sobranie (Macedonian Parliament).

05.06.2007 B&H Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO reported on June 1 that the latest Draft-Law on Higher Education is significantly removed from the spirit and the principles of the Bologna Declaration and is not a good ally for Bosnia and Herzegovina and its EU integration ambitions.

06.02.2007 Representatives of the Youth Education Forum (MOF) are dissatisfied with the existing situation surrounding the student associations and the coming elections for President of the Students’ Union at the Ss. Cyril and Method University in Skopje (SSUKM).

26.12.2006 Last Wednesday, December 20, the Constitutional Court ruled to annul the provision from the 2004 Law on the Rights of Veterans of the Homeland War and Members of their Families, which gave the right to veterans, their children and children of victims of war to direct enrolment in secondary and higher education institutions, provided that they passed the lower limit for necessary points in entry exam.

09.11.2006 The Chancellor of the University of Agriculture shuts the doors of the auditoriums saying that he was ordered to do so by the minister of education.

03.11.2006 Under initiative of MJAFT Movement, with the support by IRSH (Young Intellectuals’ Hope), a Memorandum of Understanding was signed to fight corruption in Shkodra University.

25.10.2006 The Montenegrin T-Com announced that it will secure free ADSL internet for all elementary and secondary schools in Montenegro for the next five years. The company sees this as a contribution to the process of increasing computer literacy among the population of Montenegro.

24.10.2006 MJAFT Movement organized a roundtable discussion on October 19, with participation of deans and rectors of public universities, to discuss the problematic issues that universities are recently facing, one of which is the issue of the draft Law on Education.

18.09.2006 President of Albania Alfred Moisiu met with a delegation of the International Network of Albanian student associations ALBSTUDENT, composed of students who have graduated abroad, at both state and private educational institutions, and held with them an open and wholehearted talk.

07.09.2006 The DOSTA! movement will join the Association of Bologna Students of the School of Economy in Sarajevo in the protest planned to take place today, September 7, at high noon. The protests will take place in the square in front of the School of Economy.

01.09.2006 The Macedonian Student Union (MSU) accused the former government of abuse and foul-play in the distribution of accommodation in student dormitories in Skopje. According to MSU, the sad thing is that the problem of student accommodation is treated only as seasonal problem, while it has turned into a chronic problem long time ago.