The number of freshmen at teaching faculties in Serbia is worryingly small. This news has been repeated for a decade, but nothing is being done about it. "The state must immediately start solving this problem, systemically and without half-assed solutions, following the steps proposed in the 'eight deans' platform", says Prof. Prof. Dr. Ivan Belča
Housekeepers, waitresses, couriers, kitchen workers, cooks, bakers, drivers and craftsmen employed in kindergartens will not receive the announced salary increase from September. Kindergartens remain without technical staff due to extremely unfavorable working conditions, warned the Union of Preschool Education and Education of Serbia
There is nothing more important than that the immediate actors of the education system understand why certain changes are in their interest. This cannot be done without transparency of decision-making, i.e. clear priorities, criteria and data. A situation in which there is only one state narrative with "increasing GDP" and "foreign investments" is not a suitable ground for building trust. It would have to go in the opposite direction, starting with the long-term interest of our children and then unwinding
The regime's proposal for Minister of Education is a prominent politician from the period of greatest violence, the period when professors were expelled from universities and young people from the country, when Serbia, like today, was ruled by SPS, JUL and radicals
The professors of the Sixth Belgrade High School addressed the Ministry of Education for the first time in March of this year with the request that the director of the Sixth Belgrade High School, Radisav Milić, be immediately relieved of his duties. Since he took office, according to the professors employed at this gymnasium, he exerted various pressures on the teaching staff, threatened and punished them, and in addition awarded invalid certificates to students.
How to restore the reputation of the teaching profession and once again make it a privilege for the best, we talked with the dean of the Faculty of Teachers in Belgrade, prof. Dr. Danimir Mandić. He spoke about the way today's students are preparing for the teaching profession, desirable changes in the school system and the challenges we face as a society.
School principals received a letter from the Ministry of Education with instructions on how to organize teaching and assessment, after yesterday the Government of Serbia concluded that the teaching year must end on June 6.
Apart from doctors and lawyers, the country lacks teaching staff. The Board of Directors of the Association of Directors of Serbia addresses the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development with a request to allow the hiring of incomplete students or teachers who are already retired
The Union of Educators will suspend work today, and protest gatherings have been announced at noon in 47 cities and municipalities in Serbia. However, the unions are disunited, some teachers will go on strike, some will not, some are members of the union, some are not, the principals of certain schools are threatening fines, and so is the Minister of Education, Branko Ružić.
Towards the end of each school year, professors, teachers and tutors face pressure from students to get grades they don't deserve. It is a matter of disharmony between the wishes, knowledge and upbringing of students, which occasionally erupts in the form of open violence
