Attack on the University

23.April 2025 MLJ

Pressure on the University: New criminal complaint against Rector Đokić

Rector Vladan Đokić informed Prime Minister Đur Matsut that he could not come to the meeting in the Government building because he had received a new criminal complaint. The applicant is again a "student who wants to study" Miloš Pavlović. The Prosecutor's Office says that no new hearing of the rector has been scheduled or planned

University of Belgrade

23.April 2025 BB

Repeal the regulation reducing scientific work to 12 percent

"The Decree devastates higher education for all future generations, by destroying science. We see the Decree as a new canopy that hangs over higher education," said Oliver Tošković, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.

Higher education

How to tame the university

Since the state universities are disobedient, the government is once again releasing trial balloons about the "privatization" of higher education. And it's not like they haven't already made concrete moves. Who would it suit?

University of Belgrade

13.March 2025. BB

Rector Vladan Đokić: Conflicts should be avoided

Regarding the request of the group from Pionirski Park "students who want to learn" that classes resume from Monday, the rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, said that everything depends on the end of the blockade

Rectorate of the University of Belgrade

Education

21.November 2024. TS

Foreign faculties in Serbia: The government withdraws the law after the university revolt

The storm in education was caused by the announcement of the arrival of foreign faculties without accreditation, because of which the University of Belgrade threatened "temporary suspension of work". The authorities soon relented, and Prime Minister Vučević announced that the bill was being withdrawn "due to unprecedented pressure and blackmail". Former Rector Ivanka Popović and former Minister of Education Srđan Verbić talk about problems in education in the new issue of "Vremena".

"Free those arrested in Novi Sad"

18.November 2024. Sanja Zrnić

Baucal: We are fighting for a more normal society

One of the signatories of the open letter from the professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Professor Aleksandar Baucal, tells "Vreme" that they are considering whether there will be stronger statements

Interview: Ivanka Popović

28.August 2024. Biljana Vasić

Now is not the moment to lose heart

I would not waste time at all discussing the potentially damaged reputation of individuals, it is irrelevant at this point, and it would distract attention from the essence, which is that, unfortunately, we live in a system that we cannot trust to work in the best interests of the majority of citizens. I also have to emphasize that the final decisions about the possible implementation of the "Jadar" project will not be made by experts at all - although the government has been insisting on that thesis lately - but by politicians and the company itself.

Elections for student parliaments

22.May 2024. SZ

Student politics: Grabbing power, pushing and slapping

The elections for the student parliament at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad were marked on Tuesday by bringing out ballot boxes, blocking voting, inserting ballots and slapping. In April, elections for student parliaments were held at most Belgrade faculties, and conflicts from high politics spilled over among young people.