Spring 1995 Environmental education and the entire educational system in the Republic of Macedonia needs urgent changes to adequately address the matter, however, talking about environmental education in Macedonia is difficult because that means talking about a thing that barely exists. There are eight grades in the primary schools in the Republic of Macedonia. Primary school education is compulsory education in Macedonia and it begins at the age of seven and it ends at the age of fourteen. In high schools in Macedonia, students learn about the environment through subjects such as biology, chemistry, and defense.
Environmental education is part of the educational program for all teachers in Macedonia.
Therefore, every student no matter which teacher he chooses, will have the possibility to learn something more on environmental programs. Macedonia, as a part of the former Yugoslavia, was a communist country. Unfortunately, in spite of the fact that Macedonia abandoned the communism and became a democratic country, the same sentences still can be found in the school textbooks. Changes have not been made at all in spite of all the new things that have happened in the field of environmental pollution and protection, in both the world and in Macedonia. In spite of the fact that environmental texts in the school textbooks are really bad, perhaps the situation with the environmental education would be better, if only the teachers were more interested in the environmental problems.