November 17, International Students' Day, was marked Monday with a protest march that several thousand students staged against the government proposal of introducing an external examination at all universities—both private and public—on the results of which it will depend whether students will be allowed to continue their higher education or not.

"No to the External," "The External Exam is Titanic for Our Education," "We Are People, Not Numbers," "This is the Beginning, Not the End," and "You Want to Make a Monument Out of Our Education, Too" read some of the banners carried by the students of the University of Ss Cyril and Methodius.

The protest began from outside the University of Ss Cyril and Methodius and ended outside the Ministry of Education where a small delegation of students held talks with representatives of the institution. All along, they were escorted by about a hundred police officers taking care of the safety of those protesting and of all other citizens.