65 higher education institutions in Serbia received permission to organize online classes, according to data from the National Accreditation Body (NAT) of the Council for Higher Education. But what does this mean for the total number of faculties in Serbia
Distance learning, or online classes, they asked the Ministry of Education to implement numerous faculties. Of course, they got consent from the state, in order to seemingly end the blockades and continue the school year.
Nevertheless, the number of 65 higher education institutions sounds pompous, but if you know that there are almost 150 faculties in Serbia, both state and private, then this number is not really that impressive.
Also, numerous private colleges are run as universities, and within their structure they have several courses, which are again run as special faculties, and the state has listed these courses as well.
Pro forma
Although some Educational and Scientific Councils have voted to introduce online teaching at faculties, the agreement - tacit, and often completely public - between teachers and students is to introduce distance teaching pro forma.
Only as a method for professors and other staff to be able to get their salary again from the state. The majority of students, however, will continue to boycott this type of teaching, so the blockades practically continue.
However, with online teaching, the state has the ability to send messages through tabloids and pro-government media that the faculties are "unblocked". The students in the blockade are mostly expressly against the introduction of any kind of teaching, including pro forma.
"The crisis in which our society currently finds itself was not caused by professors, but by those who, for six months, have shown no will to fulfill student demands", announced the Students in the blockade and added that they are deeply disappointed by the decisions of the Teaching and Scientific Council to introduce online classes and that this is not the position of the Plenum of Students.
At many of the faculties that are switching to online teaching, negotiations are being conducted between the professors and the students in the blockade about some compromise solution - how not to lose the academic year, but to continue the rebellion.
Who introduced online teaching?
The NAT announcement states that the University of Kragujevac and the State University in Novi Pazar received approval for online teaching, as well as the Faculty of Medicine, Electronics, Economics, Philosophy, Science and Mathematics, Law, Civil Engineering and Architecture, the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, Occupational Safety and the Arts of the University of Niš, as well as the Faculty of Pedagogy in Vranje and the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac.
When it comes to the University of Novi Sad, approval was given to the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, Technical Sciences, Philosophy, Agriculture, Technology, Law, Medicine, Natural and Mathematics, the Academy of Arts, the Technical Faculty "Mihajlo Pupin" Zrenjanin, the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Subotica and the Faculty of Pedagogy in Sombor.
At the University of Belgrade, the Faculty of Teacher Education, the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Faculty of Physical Chemistry, the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Architecture, Traffic, Forestry, Agriculture, Mining and Geology, as well as the Technical Faculty in Bor received approval.
Apart from them, the list also includes the faculties of the University of Arts in Belgrade - Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Musical Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts and private faculties in Belgrade - Faculty of Media and Communications of Singidunum University, Academy of Arts of Alfa BK University, Faculty of Computing at Union University and Faculty of Contemporary Arts, University of Privredna Academy in Novi Sad.
Online teaching is approved by the academies: Academy of Vocational Studies Šabac, Belgrade Academy of Business and Art Vocational Studies, Academy of Vocational Studies Belgrade, Academy of Technical-Educational Vocational Studies Niš, as well as Vocational Studies Academies Polytechnic, Western Serbia and Šumadija, Academy of Technical-Art Vocational Studies Belgrade and Academy of Vocational Education-Medical Studies Kruševac.
The following colleges will be able to provide distance learning: College of Vocational Studies for Educating Teachers and Trainers Subotica, College of Vocational Studies in Novi Sad and Subotica, College of Business Studies of Vocational Studies Novi Sad, College of Vocational Studies - Sirmium, College of Vocational Studies for Teacher Education in Novi Sad, Vocational Education and Medical College in Vršac and "Aviation Academy".
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