Vladimir Djukanovic (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)
Vladimir Djukanovic, a member of the Serbian Progressive Party’s presidency, said on March 10 that the state should commence the full privatization of most public schools – both primary and secondary – and subsidize and promote the opening of as many private schools as possible.
“The same idea applies to universities. [Serbia’s higher education system] needs to become more competitive, to have university schools striving to provide the best possible curriculum rather than, as things are now, have people get paid even if they’re doing nothing,” Djukanovic wrote in an op-ed for the Politika daily.
According to him, “the teachers’ political activism has taken precedence over their main role, and that is to lecture children.”
The Progressive opined that the same privatization policy should be applied to public theatres, with only the National Theatre in Belgrade or the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad remaining state-owned.
His text comes in response to the months-long university student blockades, which have garnered the support of many educators at all levels and actors, among others.
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