Education

22.May 2026. Sonja Ćirić/Marija L. Janković

Folk amateur from Grand Production: Who is the new acting director of the Zemun High School?

Vladimir Janković was appointed as the new acting director of the Zemun High School. As he claims, he was engaged in the production of metal haberdashery, was a merchant, and graduated in geography at the age of 50

Education

27.April 2026. MLJ

Following the example of the Medical: What will happen to the elections for the student parliament of the Economic?

The situation regarding the elections for the new convocation of the Student Parliament of the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade threatens to escalate into the already seen irregularities that we had the opportunity to see at some other faculties.

University of Niš

09.April 2026. CI

Faculty of Philosophy in Niš: Protest due to the revocation of the license to work in three departments

After the decision to move three departments from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, students and professors warn of the consequences for the higher education system

Kosovo

22.march 2026 MLJ

The Serbian University in Kosovo: A step towards shutting down in full view of the authorities in Belgrade

The situation for professors and students in Kosovo is catastrophic and tragic, and if the Kosovo Law on Foreigners is consistently applied, there is a fear that the University of Pristina with its headquarters in Kosovska Mitrovica will be shut down, it was said at the forum of students in the blockade in front of the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade

Kosovo

14.march 2026 MLJ

Sorensen called on Kosovo to help Serbian students and workers

The special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Peter Sorensen, called on the Kosovo government to provide residence permits for Serbian educators and students for an initial period of 12 months.

Education

12.march 2026 MLJ

Applications, suspensions, rigged competition: The recipe from Peta and Jovina spills over to other schools

In the "Banović Strahinja" elementary school on Banovo brdo, the tried-and-tested recipe of the regime devised in the "Peto" and "Jovina" high schools is being poured over - teachers and parents are reported to the police, a competition for a director is meaningless, sessions are held outside the school

Education

05.march 2026 KS

Strike at the "Lujo Davicho" Ballet School: Two months without a director and salaries

The "Lujo Davičo" ballet school in Belgrade has been without a director for more than two months, and the employees have not been paid their salaries. Therefore, school will not be open on Friday (March 6).

Education

03.march 2026 KS

National textbooks: The return of a controversial idea

Is the introduction of national textbooks a way to unify opinions and is there anything good about it

Education

03.march 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Maja Kovačević for "Vreme": "I am the new acting dean of FPN, they failed to appoint a desirable one"

Today (March 3), the FPN council in Belgrade elected Maja Kovačević as acting dean of the faculty. Kovačević talks to "Vreme" about the regime's attempt to intimidate her

Director of Jovina Gymnasium, Danka Nešović, Aleksandar Vučić

Education

27.February 2026. KS

The destruction of Belgrade's Fifth and Novi Sad's Jovina high schools: Revenge of Vučić's "decent Serbia"

The fifth high school in Belgrade and the Jovina high school in Novi Sad are like a mirror of the regime's revenge and treatment of education. What's next

Education

23.February 2026. Katarina Stevanović

Blocking the work of the "Lujo Davicho" Ballet School: Without the director and part of the salaries

The ballet school "Lujo Davičo" in Belgrade has been operating without a director or acting director for almost two months, although a competition for the selection of a director was held. Due to the irresponsibility of the Ministry of Education, part of the employees' salary is late

A blow to education

29.January 2026 Katarina Stevanović

Professors in the crosshairs: How the Vučić regime satirizes the rebellion in education

From non-extended contracts and reduced salaries, through the police at faculties and school inspections, to awards for the most loyal, the government in Serbia has been systematically punishing teachers and university professors who stood by students and rebellious citizens for more than a year.

Students in front of the Fifth Belgrade High School

Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium

21.January 2026 KS

How the second semester began in the Fifth Belgrade High School

Without a competition for a new school director, with the continuation of repression against teachers and without permission for parents to enter the school, the second semester at the Fifth Belgrade High School began. And that's not all

Education

18.January 2026 B. B.

Minister Stanković: We are openly and loudly thinking about the idea of shortening classes to 30 minutes

"We are openly and loudly thinking about shortening school hours. I think there is some kind of psychological justification," says Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković

The Council of Parents of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium asked UNICEF to react due to, as they stated, the continuous violation of children's rights in that school.

Fifth high school

21.December 2025 MLJ

If you want a New Year's voucher from the state - you have to give your parents' JMBG

The administration of the Fifth Gymnasium asks that children who want to receive a New Year's voucher from the state pay their parents' taxes

"A lot of documentation is missing, a lot of documentation was misused. Computers were hacked, offices were broken into," claims Acting Director of the Fifth Belgrade High School Danka Nešović.

Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium

05.December 2025 B. B.

Nešović: In Peta Belgrade, documentation was misused, and computers were hacked

Although the acting director of the Fifth Belgrade High School, Danka Nešović, claims that many documents from that school were misused and the computers were hacked, the parents state that her claims "have nothing to do with the truth" and that her office was locked even when the students entered the blockade, and that the students do not have a spare key

More than half of the respondents in the survey, in which almost 470 teachers participated, stated that they were most often exposed to verbal violence, various types of humiliation and threats of inspection. Principals of schools and parents of students are leading in this.

Violence against teaching staff

21.November 2025 Bojan Bednar

A Year of Brutality: The Mass Exacerbation of Teachers

More than half of the respondents in the survey, in which almost 470 teachers participated, stated that they were most often exposed to verbal violence, various types of humiliation and threats of inspection. Principals of schools and parents of students are leading in this

Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium

21.November 2025 Katarina Stevanović

Fifth grade students return to their desks, just which ones?

Since the students of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium unblocked the school, different information is pouring in about how and where classes will be held from Monday. According to the latest - it will be in a "hybrid model" and in other schools. Parents speak of 'orchestrated school closure process'

Education

18.November 2025 MLJ

Fifth gymnasium: The Ministry takes "students who want to learn" to elementary schools

For teachers and students of the Fifth Belgrade High School who want to attend classes, "educational work" will be organized in the premises of two elementary schools in the municipality of Palilula, according to the Ministry of Education.

Fake degrees

18.November 2025 RV

After graduation: Police arrested a group suspected of falsifying documents

In Serbia, 18 people were arrested on suspicion of falsifying documents and thus earning 132.000 euros. Among the documents are mostly fake university diplomas

Students in the blockade

09.November 2025 MLJ

Veterinarian urged the students to still follow the class

The Dean's College of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Belgrade called on students to attend classes regularly, after part of them declared a total blockade of that higher education institution at the plenum.

Blockade of schools

05.November 2025 MLJ

Revolt of high school students: Blockades due to Diana Hrka

High school students felt the pain of the mother of the young man who died in the fall of the canopy. The students of some schools enter the blockade of classes in order to be with Diana Hrka

Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium

18.October 2025 B. B.

The fifth day of the blockade of the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium: "Children's cry for normal classes"

Classes at the Fifth Belgrade High School were blocked for the fifth day

On October 21, the dean of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Iva Draškić Vićanović, should be heard before the Misdemeanor Court due to the report of the Education Inspection.

University of Belgrade

18.October 2025 B. B.

New pressure on the University of Belgrade: The dean of the Faculty of Philology has been summoned to a hearing

On October 21, the dean of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Iva Draškić Vićanović, should be heard before the Misdemeanor Court due to the report of the Education Inspectorate.

School blockade

15.October 2025 Marija L. Jankovic

An evening with students Pete: "This will last much longer than two weeks"

Even though it is well past eight in the evening, by which time classes usually start, the Fifth Gymnasium is full. The students are guarding it from the inside, and parents, veterans, choirs and citizens came to their aid outside. This school has been blocked again, but the blockades are not the same as last year, its students tell "Vreme"

School blockade

14.October 2025 MLJ

Mother from the fifth high school: "We expect a violent intrusion of the authorities into the school"

The parents of students of the Fifth Belgrade High School, who block the school, tell "Vreme" that they are afraid of a violent invasion of the school by the regime

SNS education

08.October 2025 Marija L. Jankovic

Chaos in the elementary school "October 20": SNS director made a complete mess

The elementary school "20. Oktobar" in New Belgrade does not have drinking water, and some classes do not have Serbian and mathematics classes for days due to a lack of teachers. The chaos was caused by the arrival of the new director - who is a cadre of the Serbian Progressive Party