Photo: TanjugEducation is a pure surplus for Serbia. If it were otherwise, the first man of the state wouldn't be promoting dual education with all his mouth, and his government would pay attention to educators only when they threaten to strike because of their humiliating position.
Young people are not stupid. The proof is the meager number of applications for admission to professorships at the Faculty of Mathematics and Philology of the University of Belgrade.
Why bother with integrals or a short-ascending accent, when you can sign the application form of the Serbian Progressive Party and buy a diploma at some obscure private college? Beyond that, only the sky is the limit, a man can become anything he wants - the minister of police or defense, the director of the EPS, the governor of the National Bank... And not to mention any more - the reader is referred to the biographies of typical progressive officials.
Well, someone will say, many do not have such ambitions, and the professorship is a safe, state job. Is that right?
In Ćuprija, a few years ago, eight female teachers lost their jobs at the Higher Medical School to make way for a progressive team led by a trio of deputies - Aleksandar Martinović, Vladimir Orlić and Darko Laketić. Those sixty thousand dinars were their pocket money, and the dismissed professors' only income.
Respecting the ban on employment in the public sector, Martinović and partners were engaged in supplementary work. But can anyone in their right mind imagine a person in the position of director who would not renew their contract? It is completely different with professors of mathematics, Serbian or geography. If they run into an ambitious progressive director, they have to collect capillary votes, pretend to be citizens while Vučić is hitting some kind of cornerstone, write comments against the opposition and independent media on their big vacation... Whatever they need, just to keep their poorly paid job.
In fact, education is a pure surplus for Serbia. If it were otherwise, there would not be more and more self-financing students, and less and less students on the budget; if it were otherwise, the first man of the state would not be advertising dual education, the very core of the minimum wage workforce in the sponsored screwdriver economy; if it were otherwise, the government would remember the educators even when they are not threatening strikes because of their humiliating position.
Young people cannot be fooled. They have long been aware that the teaching courses at most faculties condemn them to live and work in Serbia. Or, even simpler – repeating the life history of your parents.
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