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27th April 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Marina Gjorgjioska Kitanoska

Marina Gjorgjioska Kitanoska

Project coordinator at the Centre for Civic Initiative

Testimonials: Improving social cohesion in high schools in Macedonia

Quality and inclusive education is one of the basic principles for the democratization of the society. Macedonian education system has made efforts to give an accent and importance of teaching the youth to recognise differences and value them, to include the youth in their school environment, respect different ethnicities and link students through learning about coexistence and […]

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22nd March 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Dimitar Nizamovski

Dimitar Nizamovski

Programme coordinator at the Youth Education Forum in Macedonia

Dialogue and Democracy – the Value of Magna Carta for Contemporary Times

On 15 June 2015, the United Kingdom marked the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta Libertatum, one of the most significant legal documents ever written. “No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon […]

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8th March 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Lucy Woods

Lucy Woods

Defence Attache Assistant

Step it up for gender mainstreaming in defence

Today we are marking International Women’s Day. It is usually the day when we are reminded that women are today represented in a multitude of fields: community builders and advisers, soldiers, diplomats, homemakers, doctors, analysts and officials. Different countries have different policies and different gender representation, but there are some issues which are shared topics […]

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16th February 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Monika Bozinoska

Monika Bozinoska

Chevening Scholar

Not everything you learn is in university

Living as a student in the UK what mainly contributes for my satisfaction are opportunities that the university offers. However, the quality of higher education in the UK is not news. It is well known that some of the best universities in the world are here, and they not only provide students with first-class academic knowledge, but also enable them to […]

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29th December 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

Charles Garrett

Charles Garrett

British Ambassador to Macedonia

OK, so what to make of the last year in Macedonia?

Everywhere you look in December and January there are people broadcasting their reviews of the year just gone. Facebook is especially popular for this. Log on now, and there’s a long list of friends grinning out at us, inviting us to check out their year in review. Looking at Macedonia, it’s not an easy call […]

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7th December 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

Jasmina Risteska

Jasmina Risteska

Chevening Scholar

A rollercoaster experience

“Everyone is different and it is exactly that “being different” that becomes our similarity”as a group of international students in my class concluded. Studying my Masters in the UK was part of my vision board for many years. This finally came true when I became a Chevening scholar. Arriving and settling in a foreign country, […]

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23rd November 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

M.Sc. Cvetko Stavreski

M.Sc. Cvetko Stavreski

Junior advisor for marketing and sales, Strategic Development Consulting Skopje, Establishment of business inclusion project in multi-ethnic communities

Why Many Businesses Fail in the First Three Years

Establishment of business inclusion project in multi-ethnic communities is designed to help potential entrepreneurs start up their companies and helps them survive their critical period with a combination of suitable mentoring courses. The project is supported by the British Embassy and implemented by Strategic Development Consulting – Skopje. At the beginning of the project implementation, […]

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11th November 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

Lieutenant Commander Ben Timpson

Lieutenant Commander Ben Timpson

Royal Navy

On Remembrance Day in Macedonia

This year I was privileged to take part in a Remembrance ceremony in Skopje at the invitation of the British Embassy. Although I am currently serving in EUFOR in Sarajevo Bosnia Herzegovina, this was my first visit to the Republic of Macedonia and I was delighted to get the opportunity not only to be part […]

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2nd November 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

Ilina Mangova and Ana Meshkovska

Ilina Mangova and Ana Meshkovska

Chevening scholars

Conquering Civil Liberties: From Magna Carta to Carta Macedonia

“The human right to freedom is irrevocable. No person’s freedom can be restricted except by a court decision or in cases and procedures determined by law” is one of the guarantees of the Macedonian constitution of 1991. Unlike British history, Macedonian history does not have its own historical declarations of human and civil rights, however […]

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12th October 2015 Skopje, North Macedonia

Tamara Mugoša

Tamara Mugoša

Director of Migration, Asylum and Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI)

Migration and refugees: Collective efforts for joint regional response

Migration, Asylum and Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI) was established in 2004. It is a unique mechanism dealing with these three areas in the Region. Our motto is to act as advocate and be catalyst of the Western Balkans Six interests and responses to the challenges related to our field of competence. Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and […]

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