The organisation of the academic year 2025 /2026 in Republic of North Macedonia is as follows:

Organizational variations and alternative structures in public secondary education exist in the general upper secondary education and vocational upper secondary education, as Sports Academy, bilingual programs and programs for International Baccalaureate (IB). At the same time the International schools exist, as a form of private upper secondary schools.

Several laws and policy documents provide the basis for Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning (VNFIL) in North Macedonia. These include the Law on National Qualification Framework (NQF), the Law on Adult Education, the Strategy on Education 2018-2025, the Strategy on Adult Education, the Strategy on Non-formal and Informal learning, and the “Roadmap for implementing a system for validation of non-formal and informal learning in the Republic of Macedonia” (MoES, EAC, 2016).

STRATEGY FOR ADULT EDUCATION (2019-2023)

Pursuant to Article 2 of the Law on Adult Education, the providers of adult education services are:

a) adult education institution is a school, higher education institution, as well as specialized adult education institution;

b) an adult education institution, a legal or natural person that has registered an adult education activity;