Gymnasium education in Macedonia -. An important part in the structure of secondary education. The beginnings date from ⅹⅰⅹ c., But intensive development in this part of Macedonia is experiencing between the two world wars, and especially after the liberation. In the Kingdom of the SCS / Kingdom of Yugoslavia, gymnasium education in Macedonia reaches the highest development in the school year 1926/27. When they worked 15 gymnasiums, of which 9 full and 6 lower. Full gymnasiums existed in Skopje (as full of high school works from 1918/19), Bitola (1918/19), Stip (1920/21), Veles (1921/22), Kumanovo, Ohrid, Prilep (All of 1922/23), Skopje (Women, 1925/26) and Tetovo (1926/27), and Disen in Resen, Gevgelija, Kavadarci, Strumica, Debar and Kicevo. Due to restrictive measures, mainly politically motivated, in 1929. Some of the full of full gymnasiums were reduced to the lower, and some of the numbers were abolished. The gymnasium education was attended by and finished, mainly children of the notable families or children of the newcomers from other parts of the kingdom. During the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia, the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria opened (1941-1942) 10 full of real gymnasiums and 7 less high schools, called gymnasium clones: 2 male and 1 women’s gymnasium in Skopje; After a mixed high school in Bitola, Oh-Reed, Prilep, Kumanovo, Stip, Veles and Strumica; Gymnasium clones were in Berovo, Kocani, Kratovo, Kriva Palanka, Radovis, Gevgelija, Kavadarci and Resen and 2 commercial gymnasiums – in Skopje and Bitola. In the Skopje school district, in the full and filled gymnasiums (1941-1942), 2,135 students were registered, and in Bitola – 1,032, of which 111 were from the Aegean part of Macedonia. The teaching was conducted in Bulgarian, according to the curricula and programs that were applied in the education system in Bulgaria. After the liberation, with a decision of the Presidium of ASNOM (3. XI 1944), gymnasiums are opened in Skopje, Bitola, Stip, Kumanovo, Prilep, Strumica, Tetovo, Veles, Ohrid, and a little later in Kavadarci. In the academic 1949/50 31 gymnasium (12 full) were worked, with a total of 20,524 students. The gymnasium, as well as before the war, works as a general education, with an exceptional function to prepare young people for continuing the education of higher education institutions, retaining its privileged position in relation to other secondary schools. After the school reform of 1958. Gymnasium education has seen even more intensive development. In the academic year 1974/75 In Macedonia, 39 gymnasiums worked with 756 classes and 23,767 students, which compared to the total number of high school students was 37.65%. With the reform of upbringing and education from the early eighties of the last century, which introduces targeted education, the gymnasium as a special type of school is abolished, or transformed into a center for targeted education. From the school year 1991/92 High school education is introduced. In the academic year 2004/05 Out of 91 state secondary schools, gymnasium education is realized in 41 school institution, of which 12 in Skopje, and the number of students covered by the total number of students in secondary education was over one third (34%). Lit.: K. Cambera, from primer to university, Skopje, 1994. K. Camb.
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Кириличен напис ГИМНАЗИСКО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ВО МАКЕДОНИЈА