Rabotnic universities – Educational institutions for systematic education of adults. Their formation (fifties of ⅹⅹ c.) Was primarily conditioned by the need for working people and citizens to receive general and expert knowledge, in an organized and systematic manner, for the successful performance of the production and self-governing tasks. The first workers’ universities are formed in 1953. (Skopje, Stip, Prilep, Gostivar and Strumica). In 1965 Already work 28 such institutions almost in all city centers. Until the adoption of the General Law on Schooldom (1958), workers’ universities are treated as trade union organizations, then within the competence of municipal assemblies, to be transformed into self-governing work organizations. As Andragogical institutions with a polyvalent function, they developed the activity of the areas of primary, general and vocational education, the Marxist, social and political education, education for the general defense and social self-protection, as well as in the field of cultural and artistic, informative and the publishing activity. They practiced flexible Fort of work: lectures, cycles lectures, seminars, courses, centers for further qualification and retraining, evening political schools, self-managers, tribunes, literary meetings, concerts, exhibitions, etc. Workers’ universities played a significant role in raising the educational and cultural level of adults. In modern conditions, the activity is mainly focused on information education, studying foreign languages and organizing occupational courses. More labor universities (Skopje, Bitola, Ohrid, Veles, Kumanovo, Tetovo, Stip, Strumica, Kavadarci, Gostivar, Negotino, Kicevo, Probistip) work. One of the most officials “Koco Racin” in Skopje. Lit.: K. Cambera, from primer to university, Skopje, 1994. K. Camb.
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