The deans who submitted the initiative with a proposed solution to the Government of Serbia have yet to receive an official response. We don’t even know how many school teachers are currently lacking
We haven’t received any information whatsoever from the ministry with regard to whether anything has been done on the initiative of the deans. We continue to consider this as being an essential first step to addressing the issue. And, of course, this would also be the only way for us to actually find out the real need for teachers according to subject.
One illustration of the shortage of teaching staff in schools is a request that the Faculty of Chemistry received from a school asking for one of our assistants to be allowed to teach in a secondary school
The faculties have done everything they could at this juncture and are ready for further talks with the ministry. It isn’t sufficient to include only the Ministry of Education in this story, rather it is also essential to include the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. Achieving the desired effect is impossible without joint work.
The problem with teachers isn’t uniquely characteristic of Serbia, as there is a similar situation in other European countries. The majority of those countries have taken a serious approach to this problem and set out to solve it. Finland solved this problem by providing strong incentives for students and good salaries for teachers.
