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Ministry of Education meets with donors and creditors
Belgrade,
2 April 2004
Serbian Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic held a meeting today with foreign donors and creditors and briefed them on Ministry's plans and priorities in the implementation of education reform.
Author:
FoNet
Colic said that in the creation of a new system of education, the former Ministry paid special attention to teacher training in the form of seminars and workshops in order to improve communication between educators.
She said that her post as new education minister implies an analysis of the work of the previous ministry and ways in which allocated funds were used. She said that the results of this kind of funding are visible and do not require special analyses, but that programmes of seminars and their results need detailed examination.
Colic said that the Ministry is aware of the fact that the seminars are part of international projects that have been launched, and informed donors and creditors that the seminars will be suspended until professional teams engaged by the Ministry make changes in this kind of education. She added that the Ministry has had no intention at any moment to end cooperation with foreign partners.
Colic said that the decentralisation, democratisation and depolitisation of education will remain the Ministry's key priorities and thanked UNICEF representative in Serbia-Montenegro Ann Lis Svensson, who initiated the organisation of today's meeting.
The Minister said that schools in Serbia are far below European standards in terms of technical equipment, adding that the Ministry will prepare a feasibility study and carefully plan each step in the reform so that it could be fully completed.
She said that her post as new education minister implies an analysis of the work of the previous ministry and ways in which allocated funds were used. She said that the results of this kind of funding are visible and do not require special analyses, but that programmes of seminars and their results need detailed examination.
Colic said that the Ministry is aware of the fact that the seminars are part of international projects that have been launched, and informed donors and creditors that the seminars will be suspended until professional teams engaged by the Ministry make changes in this kind of education. She added that the Ministry has had no intention at any moment to end cooperation with foreign partners.
Colic said that the decentralisation, democratisation and depolitisation of education will remain the Ministry's key priorities and thanked UNICEF representative in Serbia-Montenegro Ann Lis Svensson, who initiated the organisation of today's meeting.
The Minister said that schools in Serbia are far below European standards in terms of technical equipment, adding that the Ministry will prepare a feasibility study and carefully plan each step in the reform so that it could be fully completed.
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