Tomorrow is the last day of college entrance exams. There are places for slightly more than 15.000 freshmen at the University of Belgrade. The results will be announced on July 5 at the latest. It is very possible that those who have applied for courses at faculties that train teaching staff should not worry about whether their name will be read on the list of accepted students.
Namely, judging by the number of candidates registered to take the entrance exams, at certain faculties of the University of Belgrade, significantly fewer candidates applied than the number of places for enrollment.
At the Faculty of Mathematics, only eight candidates applied for the professorship of mathematics and computer science, at the Faculty of Philology - for the course for teachers of Serbian language and literature, which accepts 250 freshmen, only 70 candidates applied, and at the Faculty of Teachers, where 410 freshmen are accepted, only 295 candidates. The Faculty of Sports and Physical Education has 279 candidates and could receive 400. At the Faculty of Education, 77 candidates applied, and there are 235 places available.
Other faculties have the opposite problem to the ones mentioned.
At the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON), 2299 candidates applied for 840 places, and at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, 429 of them applied for 766 places. The Faculty of Philosophy will receive 925 students and 1166 candidates applied, at the Faculty of Technology, 276 graduates are hoping for one of the 255 places. Medical has only 673 places for 1196 candidates. Pravni admits 1400 freshmen, and 1370 applied. There are three candidates for one place at Stomatološki. And so on.
At the University of Novi Sad, only three candidates applied for the 50 places for professor of mathematics, two candidates for professor of physics, four candidates for biology, and only one high school graduate for chemistry.
These results were the reason for the Democratic Party to call the Ministry of Education to account.
"When you humiliate and systematically destroy the educational system for a whole decade, then it is a completely natural consequence that few people want to be professors." Salaries of teachers below the national average and many years of fixed-term work are the main causes of the collapse of the education system," said Goran Radojev, president of the DS board for education, and asked the Government of Serbia who will teach the children.
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