
Education strike
Students against the system: Are high schools opening?
After three full months, teachers in some schools that were in the blockade are back at work, but the students have decided not to enter them.
After three full months, teachers in some schools that were in the blockade are back at work, but the students have decided not to enter them.
Employees in higher education institutions were left without wages, just as the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, had announced. It is an attempt at intimidation, pressure, suppression of protests, political war, attack on university autonomy
"We wanted to invite members of other branches and professions and in other institutions to join the general strike together in order to contribute to the fulfillment of student demands," Aleksandar Vinić from the United Education of Serbia told Vreme.
If the schools start implementing the tuition reimbursement plans from March 17, the school year could end normally, says the Minister of Education Slavica Đukić Dejanović
Among the new expressions coined by student protests are - ćaci or Ćaci. That's how the dilemma arose - how the expression changes depending on the case, and there is also a doubt - should it be written with an uppercase or lowercase letter?
Dragana Tatalović Lejić, the principal of the Tenth Grammar School "Mihajlo Pupin", has resigned, the school's administration confirmed to "Vremen"
The four teachers on strike at the "Vožd" school are the only educators in Belgrade against whom disciplinary proceedings have been initiated because they do not teach. While they are threatened with dismissal, they are calling for a protest
Teachers in primary and secondary schools who are on strike are the only public sector workers in Serbia who did not receive their February salary, or the amount was humiliatingly reduced. Financial, legal and moral support is coming to them from all sides, and educators say that it would mean the most to them if colleagues from other state institutions joined them in the fight.
Criminal charges against Slavica Đukić Dejanović and 12 advisers of school administrations, new protest on March 12
University professors have created a fund in which they collect money for colleagues from the industry who have been deprived of their salaries due to the strike
The large protest of educators from all over Serbia in Čačak was also attended by teachers who came on foot from four directions. Almost no school has been open in this rebellious city since January 20
Teachers in primary and secondary schools have been on strike for more than two months. Because of this, they are under attack from the authorities who want to crush them, many of them have not received their salary. Why, despite the strong moral support, only the professors of the ETF and the Faculty of Physics followed their example
The salaries of the teachers on strike have been paid, and all of them received different amounts, say "Vremena" sources. The payment was preceded by the alleged collapse of the state's information system
Educators are on strike on the road on March 5 as well. Some of them have been walking for days to Čačak, where a large protest meeting of teachers called "A step to freedom" will be held on March 6.
While salary reductions are announced for teachers, principals send calculations to the Ministry of Education. How many salaries will be paid to teachers in March?
Following the example of students who walk from town to town in Serbia, educators set out on a march from Belgrade to Čačak
Part of the educators called for the continuation of the suspension of classes, but what are the plans to make up for the missed material?
The acting principal of the Fifth Belgrade High School, Danka Nešović, locked the school on Thursday due to the "threatened safety" of students and employees. President Vučić assessed the loud protests with which the students saw off Nešović as "one of the most gruesome testimonies of today's Serbia".
At the protest in front of the Ministry of Education, it was said that a good teacher can hold his lessons in meadows, on the street, on a bridge, if the students want to hear him, believe him and if the teacher knows what to tell them.
If it really decides to count teachers every hour in February before paying them, the state risks mass lawsuits in labor law disputes. The question is also who will register the absences of 80.000 teachers in Serbia
Informal associations of educators who are still suspended are calling for a five-day strike in schools, "Vreme" has learned.
Some of the educators are still on some kind of strike - a total suspension of classes or hold 30-minute classes, while they are threatened with salary cuts and layoffs.
After Prime Minister Ana Brnabić's statement that the first constitutional appeals have been submitted due to the violation of the right to education and attending classes in elementary schools, lawyer Rodoljub Šabić says that it is not the job of the President of the Assembly to talk about it
The first constitutional appeals due to the suspension of work in schools were submitted to the Constitutional Court, and some employees in education evaluate them as threats that schools receive on a daily basis.
Teachers in Serbia called for a mass suspension of classes on Thursday and Friday, February 13 and 14, in order to make the suspension mass and their demands fulfilled as soon as possible. While the Ministry states that only eight percent of schools in Serbia are suspended, data from trade unions and associations is significantly different
The public class "Let's teach you a lesson - protest for education" was held in front of the Ministry of Education
Čačak gathers educators from all over Serbia who have continued with the suspension of work in the Association of Schools on Strike. On February 13 and 14, before Sretenje, they call on all schools in Serbia to go on strike