Commentary:Yugosphere

The Yugosphere is the subcontinental region of Europe formed by the seven countries of former Yugoslavia.


 * 1) vuni:Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * 2) vuni:Croatia
 * 3) vuni:Kosovo
 * 4) vuni:Macedonia
 * 5) vuni:Montenegro
 * 6) vuni:Serbia
 * 7) vuni:Slovenia

Note that the legal existence of Kosovo as a separate country is disputed by vuni:Serbia and some other countries and vuni:Kosovo is not recognised by all the countries of the EU.

For more details on the Yugosphere see vuni:Yugosphere and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugosphere

Implications for VISCED
These are mostly for P7 EITF who is charged with writing country reports on the region.

It is likely that there is still some commonality of the school systems since the days of Yugoslavia but in reality it seems that separate brief descriptions of each country should be provided.

It is not possible to ignore Kosovo despite the political delicacy - because of the level of external intervention in the territory there have been many substantial studies of the educational issues there - including several written in English. Of course, whether any of these have yet worked through into useful results will also need study.

With the exception of a substantial section on schools in vuni:Slovenia and a brief note on schools in vuni:Serbia, none of the countries are well covered for school or college-level education in the Re.ViCa reports. However, it might help that for most of the seven Yugosphere countries there is summary information on the universities.

However, there are useful Wikipedia entries of the form "Education in..." for five of the seven countries - except for Kosovo (none) and Macedonia (very brief).

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