Law on Higher Education

Tag: Law on Higher Education

Studying

24.July 2025 Marijana Maksimovic

Students chasing the budget: Stress up to 48 points

After months of blockades, exams have begun at the faculties, but students are troubled by a new dilemma - how to stay on budget if they fail to collect the required number of ESPB points. Faculties would like to meet them, but the decision is made by the Ministry

Protest in front of the Government of Serbia

Protests

23.May 2025. TS

Let's defend the universities: Protest of the academic community in front of the Government of Serbia

While the government is planning the preparation of a new Law on Higher Education, the academic community is responding by taking to the streets and protesting. The protest "Let's defend the universities" was held on Friday (May 23) in front of the Government of Serbia, and the organizers, among other things, requested the announcement of elections

University autonomy

19.May 2025. TS

The New Law on Higher Education: The Final "Solution" for the University

What is in store for the new Law on Higher Education? Many suspect that his purpose is to deal the final blow to the rebel universities, to abolish their autonomy. Especially since Aleksandar Vučić himself has been openly talking about punishing disobedient faculties for months

National Assembly

06.march 2025 TS

Amendments to the Law on Higher Education Adopted: "The Most Hardly Voted Law Ever"

The Parliament of Serbia adopted amendments to the Law on Higher Education, and again only members of the government attended the session. "Despite tear gas, despite shock bombs, smoke bombs, fire extinguishers, despite terrorist attacks, we managed to fulfill the fourth student demand," said Ana Brnabić

The building of the Government of Serbia

Law about higher education

22.November 2024 MS

The Government of Serbia succumbed to the professors' rebellion

After the rebellion of university professors against the legal changes that would allow the Minister of Education to grant work permits to foreign faculties at his own discretion, the Government withdrew its proposal. Vučić was very angry because of that. What was disputed in the Bill

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".

Endangering the quality of education

18.November 2024 SZ

SANU: To withdraw the proposal to amend the Law on Higher Education from the legal procedure

The Committee for Higher Education SANU sent a letter to the Government of Serbia and the Ministry of Education in which it emphasizes that the proposal to amend the law threatens the quality of higher education in Serbia

Law about higher education

15.November 2024 Tijana Stanic

Plan for foreign universities in Serbia: Ministry to make parts, and citizens to pay

In the Proposal to amend the Law on Higher Education, it is written that in the future the state will be able to subsidize foreign universities in Serbia, as well as that these universities will receive work permits only on the basis of an agreement with the Ministry of Education. This caused violent reactions

Online classes are starting at the Faculty of Physical Chemistry

University

24.October 2023 Milica Srejić

Inclusive higher education: Lack of procedures, resources and manpower

Ljupka Mihajlovska, director of the Center for Students with Handicap, says for the "Vremena" portal that there are no policies and procedures that would clearly determine what is the responsibility of whom and according to which the teaching staff could be oriented. And there is a lack of material and human resources