Who chooses directors in schools in Serbia – BBC News in Serbian

Problems are only accumulated, and the solutions do not view.

The case that launched a new dissatisfaction of educators is the dismissal of the school principal In the envelope, the village near Pančevo.

And it is only one in a series of disputed cases of shifts and election of primary and secondary schools in a chaotic school year marked by student and student blocks, as well as suspending teaching.

The school principal is elected by the competition, all employees of that school and candidate with the most votes are proposed to the school board, explains Aleksandar Markov, a teacher of history of the eighth Belgrade high school.

However, that candidate does not have to become the director.

« The school board is not obliged to propose to the Ministry of Education, although in most cases, the proposal of the Chamber, especially if most voted for that candidate.

« The final decision is made by the Minister of Education, again, is not obliged to elect a proposed candidate and to the director of another, » adds Markov, former unions forum of Belgrade Gymnasium for the BBC in Serbian.

Long-term dissatisfaction of educators in Serbia, especially culminated in the school year 2024/2025.

The strikes of the education requested by the increase in salaries marked the first half.

Else they filled Student blockade and teacher protests who supported multimedic student protestsasking for the responsibility for the Novi Sad tragedy and killed 16 people.

Due to the suspension of classes in some schools, teachers-strikers in February were either reduced salaries or did not even receive them.

Procedure for choice

The director is elected in the competition that announces the school board, prescribes the law.

The school board is the management body at school with nine members – three representatives of employees, parents and representatives on the proposal of local self-government.

They determine whether reported candidates meet the law prescribed by law, performs interviews and then obtain the opinion of the teaching council about reported candidates.

The director eventually appoints the Minister, for a period of four years.

Competitions for the election of directors are announced four, or six months before the termination of the first man’s office of the school.

The current director can recall again, but must also submit the results of the professional-pedagogical supervision of the institution he led, explained in Law on Fundamentals of Education and Education System.

If it is about private schools, the director is elected based on the general document and institution.

An inflow of politics or not?

A seemingly simple procedure often causes controversy.

One of the examples was when the director of the Medical School in Valjevo, in the West of Serbia, a candidate not supported by the teaching council, nor the school board.

Due to such a decision, a group of employees protested, claiming that the new director of the wife of a high funcchioner was the ruling Serbian advanced party.

From Ministry of Education They then stated that it was not known to them and that it was not information required during the competition for the election of the director.

Vladimir Ristic, director of primary school in the envoy, was denied, an informal group of primary school professors, Pulse.

Ristic confirmed that information later For several media.

He claims that he has pointed out the problem with the hydrant network for years, which coincided with the period of suspension.

The whole collective of that school opted for breaking hours.

He warned of this problem in charge, pointing out that she was not safe, instead of answers got a canceled letter.

In at least seven schools in Pancevo’s hydrant network is defective or dysfunctional, he published Recently N1.

Therefore, it is practically prevented by fire extinguishing if it occurs, which is, which is the safety of children, but also employees, endangered.

He was also disputed by the assessment of the director of the Pete Belgrade Gymnasium Danke Nešović, as he resigned the floor, as they wrote, pressing, because students and collective declared a blockade.

She She forbade her school entry to all students and teachers, except when she invites them, which made the students react with new protest.

Multi-day protests also caused the shift of the director in the only state educational institution in Serbia in which professional pilots are educated, most likely, due to influences of politics.

More than 10 lecturers and licensing managers Aeronautical Academy In Belgrade, it was fired due to the decision of the Ministry of Education to change the longtime director of Goran Cvijović and in its place bringing Miroslava, Mechanical Engineers without experience in the Air Force.

The professors of Pete Gymnasium in Belgrade announced that 5. Maja will return to class.

However, the students of this high school in the city center are announcing that they will boycott assessment and not to give up on blockade.

« In addition we will not attend classes, we will not go to any tests, on any answer, we will not do domestic tasks and presentations », they have announced after their plenum.

Students say they understand the decision of the professor to stop suspension of classes, because they have been without pay for three months.

Notes that one of the options for dismissing this crisis situation is the introduction of « white strike », ie that the five students conclude all students.

They are also looking for a unique solution that will be valid in all schools.

So far, students of Pete Gymnasium, supported the students of the first and mathematical high school.

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