Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the goal of educational reforms is to create a system that will not teach children what to think but how to think and prepare them for the 21st century.
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Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the goal of educational reforms is to create a system that will not teach children what to think but how to think and prepare them for the 21st century.
At the opening of the 4th International Conference on Future Education, Brnabic stressed that reforms in this area are being implemented to empower young generations for the future, new jobs that do not yet exist.
Education reforms have been launched in Serbia, which mean that the system is linked to the labour market, so that the progress of each student can be monitored, said the Prime Minister, explaining that in this way we link our education to the labour market so that we could track students’ movements through the system, which profiles and levels of education they opt for, depending on the schools they attend.
With the great support of UNICEF, we have implemented curriculum reform in pre-school education, which provides more project-based learning and play-based learning, stimulating research, curiosity and critical thinking through the new curriculum, she said.
We want to teach young people, especially at that age, how to think, not what to think, she noted.
According to Brnabic, in line with digitalisation, almost all schools have been granted internet access, wireless internet has been introduced in 500 schools, all with the aim of digitising all educational institutions by 2021.
We currently have 10,000 digital classrooms for 200,000 students across Serbia, the Prime Minister specified, explaining that the lecture is interactive, more interesting, knowledge is more quickly accepted, to the satisfaction of both students and teachers.
Also, she added, specialised IT departments were introduced in high schools, informatics has become a compulsory subject since the fifth grade, and dual education is developing.