Photo: Goranka MatićThe Post of Serbia signed an agreement with the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Dveri movement believes that the SNS is behind this educational institution, that it serves to acquire dubious diplomas for party personnel. Students practice in the media, most of which are tabloids, and the faculty is located in the premises of a state-owned enterprise. In addition, most of the professors came from Megatrend, which already has a long tradition of dubious degrees and doctorates
The Dveri movement accused the Serbian Progressive Party of preparing to destroy the "Post of Serbia", as it once destroyed the company Elektroprivreda. The reason for this, they claim, is the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDN), based on which employees of the Post Office and their families will be able to study at this faculty at half the price. In the statement, Dveri claims that the FDN "founded SNS so that party cadres could more easily obtain a party diploma".
The problem is not the cooperation agreement between the public company and the higher education institution as such, but the choice of the institution where the employees of the Post Office will be "trained" and "further educated". The leader of Dveri Boško Obradović was the first to speak publicly about this faculty in 2020, calling it "Megatrend 2", or "New Megatrend", because 27 out of 34 lecturers came precisely from -Megatrend.
It is known that until now Megatrend has been used to obtain dubious degrees and doctorates for high-ranking state officials, as well as some ministers. Among other things, Zoran Đorđević, director of the Post of Serbia, received his master's degree there.
As reported by the Beta agency, Megatrend University Rector Mića Jovanović said in 2020 that the FDN was created by the "literal defection" of teachers from Magatrend, and that he believes that "it happened because the Serbian Progressive Party wanted to create its own institution."
The Faculty of Social Sciences was founded in 2020 as part of the University of the Academy of Economics in Novi Sad. This University has been in existence for more than two decades and on the website they point out that it is "the first private university in Vojvodina".
Suspicious address
In the agreement, the FDN undertook that employees of the Post Office and their families will be able to study with a 50 percent discount. The regular tuition fee is 1.200 euros per year, at least according to the available data from their website. In addition, of course, there are numerous "small" prices for additional study services.
They offer three undergraduate programs - Economics, Information Technology and Digital Media and Communications. A large number of the same subjects, such as economics, management, and marketing, are taught in all three fields of study. Master's studies are not much different, only instead of Information Technology they have management. In doctoral studies, there is only the program of Economic Sciences, where practically there is not a single specific subject except writing a paper.
It is interesting that they offer internships in "the most widely read media in Serbia", where they highlighted on the website "Kurir", "Srpski Telegraf", Adria media group, "Republika", "Srbija", "Danas", "Telegraf", "Večernje Novosti". and "The Flash". They are also their partners.
They are located at the address Bulevar umetnosti 2a, which is also the headquarters of the company "PMC inženjerig", which "Vreme" already wrote about as being one of the first companies to build in Belgrade on the water, and which is a daughter company of the state transport company weapons, military equipment and technology transfer - Jugoimport SDPR. FDN leases the premises of Jugoimport for its needs.
Dveri assesses that the act of signing the agreement is nothing more than "an attempt to obtain dubious diplomas for SNS members who are employed in this public company through party connections, in order to be appointed to management positions, because without a university diploma it would not be possible." .
"The biggest problem with the current government is not only crime and corruption at the top of the system, but also the arrogance, incompetence and incompetence of the ruling party's cadres, which threaten the survival of the leading public companies in Serbia," they conclude in the announcement.
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