Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković visited the students who oppose the blockade of the faculty and who are protesting in Pionirski Park and appealed to them to abandon the announced hunger strike.
Students who camp in Pioneer Park and call themselves "students who want to study", they announced that from On June 1, start a hunger strike if classes at the faculties do not start by that date, and on Friday (May 30) they were visited by the Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stankovic.
In his conversation with them, he said that the University of Belgrade is "slowly waking up" and that teaching at higher education institutions in Serbia "will be normalized very quickly". He called on them to abandon the announced hunger strike.
He told them that in the university centers in Niš and Kragujevac, "teaching activities at the level of distance education are completely normalized", and that the University of Belgrade is "undeniably waking up".
"We are close to victory"
"We are close to victory, time is working for us. I would like to say it's over, but it's over when it's over, even though it seems like a phrase. Patience and will power slowly but surely irrevocably bring victory over one form of spontaneous political action," said Stanković.
He assessed that "there is no more what was called the unity of the students in the blockade and the expanded rector's collegium".
"Some institutions such as the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, such as the Faculty of Economics, Mechanical Engineering, and the Faculty of Physical Chemistry, not only requested permission from the Ministry of Education for online teaching, but also began to conduct teaching activities. This is a sign that the education system in Serbia has been revitalized, that it is moving towards complete renewal, which is the responsibility of every state," said Vuk Stanković.
He said that the main goal of the Ministry of Education is for "pupils to be in desks, students in amphitheatres, and teachers in classrooms and in chairs."
"What has happened to us in the past six and a half months is that education, which is a non-political topic, has turned into a tool for daily politics, that faculties have begun to look like Ideh fortresses and professors like political activists. The political activism of any individual, whoever he may be, is not a problem either, but you cannot use faculties and schools for your political promotion," said the minister.
An appeal to give up the hunger strike
Minister Dejan Vuk Stanović appealed to the students who oppose the blockades of the faculties to abandon the announced hunger strike if classes do not start by June 1.
"Teaching at some faculties has already started, and soon it will probably start at all. Where it doesn't start, those institutions will be isolated, left to their own devices, and if they don't come to their senses, they will be left to oblivion," Stanković said.
He added that the students in the blockade have the right to a political position, but also that the faculties cannot lead plenums and that the blockades cannot be a means of solving the problem.
"They are students just like you, and if they want to study, the faculties will be open to them as well. There will be no revenge or revenge. It's time to go back to studying because there is no alternative to classes, no alternative to exams, no alternative to your future," said the Minister of Education.
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