Students to hold protest in Belgrade

Students will protest in front of the University of Belgrade administrative building on Monday, it has been announced. The university students are protesting because the statistics on how many of them have met the conditions for registering for the next year of schooling has not been released. Students to hold protest in Belgrade Student liaison at the Political Science Faculty David Bakic stated that the protest will begin at 14:00 CET and that it is aimed “against the university, which is not giving data on the exact number of students who have fulfilled conditions for registering for the new school year and who will be financed from the budget, even after the deadline for doing so has expired.” On the other side, university officials told Beta news agency that all of the data that is being asked for by the protesting students was given by the universities to the Education Ministry. An expert group with the ministry was expected to evaluate over the weekend how many students will be financed by the state outside the 20 percent quota. The recently adopted changes and additions to the Law on Higher Education call for an additional 20 percent of students to be financed by the budget in addition to the students that were on scholarship last year. The university makes lists of top ranking students based on the number of points earned and average grades.

Students to hold protest in Belgrade

Student liaison at the Political Science Faculty David Bakić stated that the protest will begin at 14:00 CET and that it is aimed “against the university, which is not giving data on the exact number of students who have fulfilled conditions for registering for the new school year and who will be financed from the budget, even after the deadline for doing so has expired.”

On the other side, university officials told Beta news agency that all of the data that is being asked for by the protesting students was given by the universities to the Education Ministry.

An expert group with the ministry was expected to evaluate over the weekend how many students will be financed by the state outside the 20 percent quota.

The recently adopted changes and additions to the Law on Higher Education call for an additional 20 percent of students to be financed by the budget in addition to the students that were on scholarship last year.

The university makes lists of top ranking students based on the number of points earned and average grades.