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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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New profession to be introduced to secondary schools

Belgrade, 8 November 2005

Representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Education and Sport, the German organisation for technical cooperation (GTZ) and the Pexim software company, signed today a memorandum on mutual cooperation in the realisation of a project introducing a new profession, that of bank clerk, in an effort to help modernise the secondary school system in Serbia.

The memorandum was signed by Minister of Education and Sport Slobodan Vuksanovic, head of the GTZ Marin Trajanov and General Director of the Pexim company Goran Gencic.

Vuksanovic explained that the project will first be implemented in seven secondary schools of economics in Serbia, so that when they finish the school, students will be able to find employment in any bank both in the country and abroad.

Two Belgrade secondary schools, the first school of economics, and the school of law administration, as well as economics schools in Nis, Kragujevac, Cacak, Subotica and Uzice, will get new classrooms specially equipped to resemble a bank business space, where students will be able to gain practical experience of the job.

This project is the most modern part of the secondary school system in Serbia, and also the most evident result of reforms in the secondary education. It is a result of the cooperation between the local self-government and the Serbian government, who are jointly working on the introduction of new professions to meet the needs of the country’s economy.

Goran Gencic, General Director of the Pexim software company, which has invested €100,000 in equipping the classroom, said that this is an investment into Serbia’s future, and not simply a donation.

Gencic said that the modernised school system will help banks in Serbia to reduce expenses, since they will no longer have to finance additional training of their employees to teach them how to work with new systems. Instead, the banks will get an educated and trained workforce.

Head of GTZ Marin Trajanov said that the new profession means a speedy solution for the biggest problem in Serbia’s banking sector, and that is a competent workforce.

As a German government organisation, GTZ has been giving support to the Serbian Ministry of Education and Sport since March 2002. Through reforms of secondary school education, projects endorsed by GTZ have included around 3,800 students in 32 schools.