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NSPRS said the completed public debate on education-law changes restricted parent and student participation. The union also criticised the 20-day consultation period and the lack of an open ministerial explanation.
The school year for primary schools starts on 1 September. In central Serbia, the first term runs until 30 December and in Vojvodina until 23 December; the second term starts on 18 January and 11 January respectively.
021 reports that Novi Sad has begun distributing free textbooks to more than 32,000 pupils in 36 primary schools. The city allocated 545 million dinars for the programme.
A protest photo exhibition titled Light It Up Too opened outside Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium in Novi Sad on the evening of 8 August. Danas reports that the school fence displayed photographs from protests supporting teachers and students and from the building blockade; teachers, current and former students, residents and cyclists attended.
The National Employment Service has published a vacancy for the director of Novi Sad's Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium. Parents say the document list omits an equality commissioner's certificate that no discriminatory conduct has been established against the candidate, and therefore expect the vacancy to be annulled. This is their legal assessment, not a decision already taken.
N1 reports that a draft law would revoke the licence of a teacher who does not resume classes after a principal’s warning, and would reduce parent and student representation. The ministry and representative unions did not comment to N1.
