ALBANIAN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IMPROVE THEIR SERBIAN

2. April 2011.

Bujanovac – Over the next couple of days, 28 teachers from six primary and two secondary schools from the municipality of Bujanovac are going to improve their knowledge of Serbian at the “Naim Fraseri” primary school. The primary and secondary teachers at issue teach children whose mother tongue isn’t Serbian.

“In order to enable members of ethnic minorities in Serbia to have full and equal employment opportunities, a better access to social welfare services, university education and facilitated communication with inhabitants of their town, it is important that they have a chance to learn Serbian. Namely, this long-term seminar ensures that young people’s rights are respected and it will provide them with the skills necessary for having an access to the modern European society”, said Nicholas Hercules, Program Manager of the PBILD, within which the seminar was organized.

For members of ethnic minorities, Serbian as a non-mother tongue is a compulsory school subject from first grade.

The initial seminar was held for primary and secondary school teachers from the municipality of Presevo in February 2011. The PBILD Program is going to organize two more seminars for primary and secondary school teachers from the municipalities of Bosilegrad and Medvedja, as well as for primary and secondary school teachers who teach a great many Roma children in the municipalities of the Jablanica and Pcinj districts. The said seminar was accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia. Upon completing the seminar, all teachers will get a certificate proving that they had undergone advanced improvement.