Serbia could be left without a certified Aviation Academy, due to the announced strike of school employees
Change of director Aviation Academy Goran Cvijović - this is the reason why the Council of Parents organized the school on Wednesday (January 8) protest in front of this institution, which is located at the foot of Kalemegdan in Belgrade.
The question is whether Serbia will practically be without the work of the Air Force Academy from January 9, because the employees of the school, for the same reason, have announced a complete suspension of work.
The problem that may arise is that it has been announced that all responsible managers in the certified organizations of the Air Force Academy, 15 of them, will submit their irrevocable resignations on the same day, which will cause the school to lose all the certificates it currently has.
If this happens, the future careers of the students would be in jeopardy.
What are the messages of the students
"Citizens of Serbia and the world will fly the planes of the national airline company, which will be operated by us, they will be maintained by our fellow engineers, and the sky above Serbia will be controlled by our fellow air traffic controllers," the students of the school wrote in an open letter to the Minister of Education.
"This school is not made up of buildings or airplanes, nor your solutions and solutions," they added.
"It is made by us young people, to whom the future of this country belongs, and by our teachers who are preparing us for that future."
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What parents and teachers say
Parents, former and current students, as well as teachers gathered in front of the Air Force Academy and read questions for the Minister of Education Slavica Đukić Dejanović.
"What the students and us parents are particularly interested in is the basis on which such a decision was made and why the safety of our children is at risk and how is it even possible in the aviation industry where there is no room for error," said Dragana Veljović, the mother of the student who attends this school.
Parents are also interested in what will happen next with the certificates that their children should receive.
"What about the time, effort and money we invested, that is, those children invested in education. This is an elite professional school and there should be no room for such mistakes. We hope for a resolution," Veljović added.
She also said that "it seems to her that it was thoughtless and that someone was playing around, that he did not think deeply about the consequences" that the decision on a new director could have.
Teacher Saša Predić, who teaches at this school, was also at the protest. He told N1 that if the school loses its certificates, its "work would be completely meaningless".
"We gathered here today to make it clear to everyone that politics has no place in education." You know, political commitment or party affiliation is a personal matter of each of us and a constitutionally guaranteed right. But that must not be the criterion on the basis of which people are appointed at the head of such institutions. That is unacceptable," added Predić.
Tabloids also wrote about the former director of the school in the past months, so texts appeared that Cvijović was bringing opposition cadres to that place.
Predić says that "all those attacks that have a political connotation are something that is extremely inappropriate".
Why was the director replaced?
The Ministry of Education dismissed Goran Cvijović from the position of director of the Air Force Academy, after two decades in this position.
Cvijović spent 25 years at the academy, and his mandate was supposed to last two more years.
In his place, Miroslav Lepir, a member of the city administration of the municipality of Vršac from the ranks of the Serbian Progressive Party, was appointed as the new acting director.
On January 3, the Council of Parents held an extraordinary meeting where they were given a copy of the Decision of the Ministry of Education, by which the current director was dismissed, as well as the complete documentation that the school submitted to the Ministry in response to the findings of the Republic's Education Inspection.
"By examining the aforementioned decision, as well as the documentation with which the school responded to the objections, it can be unequivocally concluded that this is a classic example of a political replacement of the director," the statement of the Council of Parents also states.
Parents call the decision of the Ministry of Education "unnecessary" and "in the opinion of lawyers, very sloppily written, and in most points legally unfounded."
It is also added that it is not clear what were the criteria on the basis of which the Ministry of Education appointed Miroslav Lepir, who, according to the statement, "does not have a single day of experience in managing any educational institution or in jobs related to the aviation industry", and not it is not even known whether it meets the criteria prescribed by the current Law on the Basics of the Education System.
The parents think that it is a political revenge because in October 2024, director Cvijović dismissed Miloš Đokić, responsible manager of the pilot training center in Vršac, "due to a series of omissions that seriously threatened the safety of the training and the lives of the students of the Aviation Academy".
That's why the director appointed an instructor pilot, Captain Davor Lukić, "who has extensive experience in managing pilot training and in commercial traffic in major global companies and Air Serbia" in Đokić's place.
The Council asks the Minister of Education Slavica Đukić Dejanović to cancel the decision by which Goran Cvijović was dismissed from the position of director.
Will children be left without diplomas?
The employees of the school announced that the pupils and students of this school will not be able to attend classes until all the demands of the employees are met.
If the managers in the certified organizations of the Aviation Academy resign, as they have announced, this school may lose the authority of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
This means that pupils and students will not be able to obtain the necessary licenses and certificates at the end of their education, which calls into question their right to education, professional orientation and future careers in the aviation industry.
Important contracts that the school has with an aviation company are also on the table MTU Maintenance Serbia, but also to Air Serbia, Mup and other institutions.
Last year, the school celebrated 100 years of work, and numerous valuable investments with other companies from the aviation industry were planned.
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