The Ministry of Education and Science has approved the School Textbook Catalog and completed the transfer of funds to the accounts of eligible parents as a subsidy for students’ textbooks from the first through the ninth grade for this school year.

According to the Ministry’s announcement, applications by parents and legal guardians began on July 27 through the eKosova platform. Each submitted application was checked by authorized coordinators at schools, while the verified lists were finally reviewed by the relevant ministry commission.

After the verification process was completed, the list of beneficiaries was forwarded to the Ministry of Finance, which carried out the transfer of funds to the parents’ bank accounts.

The Ministry also announced that it had held negotiations with publishing houses to determine the final retail prices of school textbooks. The negotiating commission prepared the final report on the results of this process.

Based on this report and its legal authorizations, the Ministry of Education and Science approved the official School Textbook Catalog, which sets the final prices for each textbook. These prices are mandatory at all school textbook sales outlets.

The catalog has been published online and can be found at this link: https://mash.rks-gov.net/…/katalogu-i-tekste…/ .

The subsidy amount per parent or student for school textbooks in the Albanian language has been set as follows:

For grades 1 and 2, 60 euros have been allocated.

For grade 3, 65 euros have been allocated.

For grade 4, 70 euros have been allocated.

For grade 5, 80 euros have been allocated.

For grades 6 and 7, 90 euros have been allocated.

For grades 8 and 9, 100 euros have been allocated.

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The Ministry of Education and Science has extended the application deadline for the State Matura Exam so that students who meet the requirements to take the exam can also register.

According to the ministry’s announcement, applications will remain open until Monday, 24.08.2026, at 11:00 a.m. Applications will be approved on the same day, by 12:00 p.m.

So far, 4,650 students have registered for the State Matura Exam.

However, based on the results from the June session, the ministry estimates that around 1,000 students who are eligible to take the exam have not yet completed their applications.

The Ministry of Education and Science explains that the decision to extend the deadline is intended to give all potential candidates the opportunity to be included in the application process.

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First-year student enrollment quotas have been reduced at all universities in North Macedonia. Minister of Education and Science Vesna Janevska explained that the decision is linked to labor market saturation and the high number of unemployed people in certain professions, while in other fields employability is very high and there is also a shortage of qualified staff.

Ahead of the start of university enrollment, Janevska announced that around 2,000 places have been cut across all higher education institutions this year. Nevertheless, she expressed confidence that every high school graduate would be able to find a place at the faculty where they wish to continue their studies.

According to her, the largest quota reductions have been made in business administration, public administration, and several programs at the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Law, as these are the fields with the highest number of unemployed people. Adjustments have also been made to medical programs. Meanwhile, quotas for technical programs, including computer science, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering, have remained almost unchanged because their employment rate reaches 98-99 percent, Janevska said.

The minister expects discussions on the three laws related to higher education and science to continue through the end of this month. They have been blocked in Parliament by the Albanian opposition bloc, which is demanding that they be adopted under the Badinter principle.

Janevska said she believes reason will prevail and Parliament will manage to overcome political clashes so that these three laws are not used to resolve some other issue. She stressed that there have already been delays and that no more time should be wasted on political debates over such an important matter, adding that their adoption is in the interest of all young people in the country.

Speaking about school textbooks, Janevska announced that the process of distributing them to schools is nearing completion and that no shortages are expected during the 2026/2027 school year. She explained that schools that failed to submit the number of required textbooks on time will have to obtain them themselves, because the Ministry supplies them based on the orders submitted.

Regarding the enrollment of over 4,000 fewer first-grade pupils compared with last year, Janevska emphasized that the figure is not yet final and may change by the end of September. According to her, this situation is mainly because some parents have not yet enrolled their children, while some schools have not entered pupils into the E-Dnevnik electronic system.

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