Ministry of Education and Science (North Macedonia)

Ministry of Education and Science

Министерство за образование и наука
The building which houses the Ministry
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Formed	1991 (As a Ministry of modern Republic of Macedonia)
Jurisdiction	Government of North Macedonia
Headquarters	Skopje,  North Macedonia
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Website	www.mon.gov.mk

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The Ministry of Education and Science is a ministry of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, by virtue of section 23 of the Law of Organization and Acting of the Organs of State's Administration (Law Gazette of Republic of Macedonia no. 59/2000 from 21. July 2000). The Ministry does the work concerning:

• upbringing and/or education of any type or degree
• organization, financing, development and upgrading of the upbringing, education and science
• upbringing and education of Macedonian workers' children in foreign countries
• verification of different professions and/or profiles in the field of education
• pupils' and students' standards
• technological advances, IT, information systems, and
• international scientific and/or technical collaboration, etc.

As sectors of the Ministry, exist the following institutions:

• Pedagogical Services Office
• Bureau for Development of the Education
• Authority for development and upgrading the education in the ethnicities' tongues
• National Educational Inspectorate^[1]

Ministers[]

№	Portrait	Name (born-died)	Mandate commenced on	Mandate finished on	Length (in days)	Party/Coalition	Government
of education (1991–2000)
1		Dimitar Dimitrov (b. 1937)	20 March 1991	5 September 1992	535	Independent
2		(b. 1932)	5 September 1992	20 December 1994	836	SDSM
3			20 December 1994	23 February 1996	430	SDSM
4		(b. 1947)	23 February 1996	30 November 1998	1011	Independent
5		(b. 1958)	30 November 1998	28 December 1999	393	VMRO-DPMNE
6		(b. 1943)	28 December 1999	31 July 2000	216	Independent
of science (1991–2000)
1		Georgi Efremov (b. 1932)	20 March 1991	5 September 1992	535	Independent
2		(1945–2011)	5 September 1992	20 December 1994	836	Independent
3		(b. 1947)	20 December 1994	23 February 1996	430	Independent
(2)		(1945–2011) (2nd mandate)	23 February 1996	30 November 1998	1011	Independent
4		(b. 1958)	30 November 1998	28 December 1999	393	PDSH
5		(b. 1958)	28 December 1999	31 July 2000	216	Independent
of Education and Science (2000–present)
1		(b. 1943)	31 July 2000	1 November 2000	93	Independent
2		(b. 1958)	1 November 2000	1 November 2001	365	Independent
3		(b. 1957)	1 November 2001	27 August 2006	1760	BDI
4		(b. 1972)	27 August 2006	27 July 2008	700	PDSH
5		(b. 1970)	27 July 2008	10 July 2009	348	VMRO-DPMNE
6		(b. 1979)	10 July 2009	5 June 2011	695	VMRO-DPMNE
7		(b. 1981)	28 July 2011	28 May 2013	670	VMRO-DPMNE
8		Spiro Ristovski	29 May 2013	19 June 2014	387	VMRO-DPMNE
9		Abdylaqim Ademi	20 June 2014	5 April 2016	655	DUI
10			5 April 2016	1 June 2017	422	DUI
11			1 June 2017	1 June 2018	365	SDSM
12			1 June 2018	30 August 2020	790	DUI
13			30 August 2020	17 January 2022	505	SDSM

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