Albania arranges tests for teachers
For the very first time, the anilities of approximately 19000 school teachers in Albania are being evaluated look as what skills they lack, even though a few have denied to take the test.
In Albania, teachers with less than twenty years of experience are being screened to measure their powers in the first-ever try to work out what pro training is needed throughout the country.
On 23rd January, around fifteen thousand teachers all across Albania would take the test. The test was already conducted in the Tirana municipality back in November 2015. Speaking to a leading news channel, Nora Malaj, the country’s deputy education minister told that tests are taken to identify training facilities so that they can step up the level of education in the nation.
Malaj told Plainsailing.com that in this phase, they are acting as doctors diagnosing the abilities as well as knowledge of teachers all over the country. This test would give them the scope to better understand the specific requirement for training in every region, city and school to create a solid database in this regard.
The country has approximately 35000 school teachers. It has been stated that some of them got their jobs as of their political party affiliations, especially in rural areas.
It has been suggested that teachers who has earlier performed badly would not be fired. The country’s government would supply the necessary funds for a private organization to offer the training that they require.
Albania is sees surge in tourist numbers
New flights, low living costs and rising number of travels are encouraging overseas property demand in Albania, told a top resort chief.
The east European nation has secured hundred and sixty seven percent in foreign travelers in the third quarter, last year – topping 1 million, as per a national statistics office in the country - INSTAT. Only 2 years earlier, the country saw 390454 overseas visitors.
Traveler number from East Asia as well as Pacific increased 42.34 percent year-on-year as well as Western Europe by 24.7 percent. Albania’s first high-end resort - Lalzit Bay Resort and Spa’s Marketing Director Peter Walshe told that Albania is looking to be one of the stand-out destinations for travel this year and as the nation starts to fully recognize the potential of its tourism market, this is sure to be just the start.
He added that in line with this, they are certainly seeing an increasing number of inquiries from people interested in purchasing property in the beautiful coastal region of Lalzit Bay, for both their own use and having recognized its investment potential. Albania is proving a popular selection for buyers in a wide range of countries.
The summer of 2015 will also see the start of a series of new flight paths linking Albania capital, Tirana, with several important places in Europe and beyond. A contract between Travel Service and Czech Airlines will see new flights start between Tirana and Prague.
Albania Opens Dictator Hoxa’s Huge Cold War Bunker
On Saturday, 22 November 2014, a large, confidential nuclear bunker of ex-dictator from Albania, Enver Hoxa, was exposed to public.
This nuclear bunker was constructed by the fearful communist dictator, who feared the attacks from the West. In the bunker bedroom, Hoxa’s bed is still covered with the red mattress. On the bedside table, there’s a Soviet-era radio. Hoxa ruled Albania for 40 years and he feared an impending attack by the Western nations. During his reign, the country remained largely isolated from the rest of the nations.
Although the regime has fallen 24 years ago, the countryside of Albania has remains of nearly 700,000 bunkers. According to officials, the locals call the structures “mushrooms” and these structures were constructed to be indestructible. These bunkers were constructed for defending against the Western attacks.
Informed sources revealed that Hoxa had about four secret refuges, which he constructed for him as well as for his family members. The huge bunker that was revealed last Saturday is constructed into the mountainside and is located east of Tirana. The underground shelter measures about 28,900 square foot or 2,685 square meter and sprawls over 5 levels. The bunker consists of a cinema and 106 rooms.
The bunker was constructed between 1972 and 1978. This underground shelter was created to work as the central committee headquarters. It also worked as the communist assembly during war. Many describe this underground structure as a “five-star” complex. After visiting the location, Edi Rama, Albanian Prime Minister, declared that they have decided to veal everything. Until the revelation, the underground bunker featured on “top secret” list of Albanian army.
Albania Opens Dictator Hoxa’s Huge Cold War Bunker
On Saturday, 22 November 2014, a large, confidential nuclear bunker of ex-dictator from Albania, Enver Hoxa, was exposed to public.
This nuclear bunker was constructed by the fearful communist dictator, who feared the attacks from the West. In the bunker bedroom, Hoxa’s bed is still covered with the red mattress. On the bedside table, there’s a Soviet-era radio. Hoxa ruled Albania for 40 years and he feared an impending attack by the Western nations. During his reign, the country remained largely isolated from the rest of the nations.
Although the regime has fallen 24 years ago, the countryside of Albania has remains of nearly 700,000 bunkers. According to officials, the locals call the structures “mushrooms” and these structures were constructed to be indestructible. These bunkers were constructed for defending against the Western attacks.
Informed sources revealed that Hoxa had about four secret refuges, which he constructed for him as well as for his family members. The huge bunker that was revealed last Saturday is constructed into the mountainside and is located east of Tirana. The underground shelter measures about 28,900 square foot or 2,685 square meter and sprawls over 5 levels. The bunker consists of a cinema and 106 rooms.
The bunker was constructed between 1972 and 1978. This underground shelter was created to work as the central committee headquarters. It also worked as the communist assembly during war. Many describe this underground structure as a “five-star” complex. After visiting the location, Edi Rama, Albanian Prime Minister, declared that they have decided to veal everything. Until the revelation, the underground bunker featured on “top secret” list of Albanian army.
Pera Museum’s accumulation of Istanbul snaps travels to Bosnia
Pera Museum in Istanbul arranged an exhibition in the year 2012 which included many snaps of Anatolian shore of Bosporus from 19th century to 20th century. Titled From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul, the exhibit showed several images of Istanbul clicked taken by photography masters like Félice Beato, Ali Sami Aközer, the Abdullah Brothers, Guillame Berggren, Ernest Edouard de Caranza, the Gülmez Brothers, Maurice Meys, Sebah & Joaillier, James Robertson, Elisa Pante Zonaro and Ali Enis Oza.
Comprising of a selection from the photography collection of Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation, the show was significant in the sense which it demonstrated Istanbul as well as its beauty for years. The exhibit was open for over 3 months in Istanbul. Now, it has recently saw its way to Bosnia and Herzegovina along with the quislingism of Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina Intercultural Art Dialogs plan, Yunus Emre Institute, as well as Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation.
The snaps are highly worthful in terms of affirming nostalgic photos of the city describing daily life, the landscape and people. The exhibit takes people on a journey via the photography techniques which disagree from today’s digital photography exercises.
In that honor, it is quite possible to check From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul in 2 various ways. First, it is a type of a time travel via the altering city, and second, it is a travel through the altering techniques of photography.
