Ministry of Education (Serbia)

The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Министарство просвете, romanized: Ministarstvo prosvete) is the ministry in the Serbian government that oversees the country's education system. Slavica Đukić Dejanović is the incumbent minister.[3]

Ministry of Education
Министарство просвете
Ministarstvo prosvete
Ministry overview
Formed11 February 1991 (1991-02-11)
JurisdictionGovernment of Serbia
HeadquartersNemanjina Street 22–26, Belgrade, Serbia
44°48′15.1″N 20°27′43.6″E
Employees430 (2017)[1]
Annual budget€1.928 billion (2020, planned)[2]
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History

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development was established on 11 February 1991.

From 2001 to 2007, the Ministry of Youth and Sports was merged into the Ministry of Education. It was later split from the Ministry and reestablished.

The ministry of science and technological development, which had existed under different names since 1991, was merged into the education ministry on 14 March 2011. When the third cabinet of Ana Brnabić was established on 26 October 2022, it was again separated from the education ministry as the ministry of science, technological development, and innovation.

Subordinate institutions

There are several agencies and institutions that operate within the scope of the Ministry:

  • Institute for the Advancement of Education
  • Institute for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education and Upbringing
  • Intellectual Property Office
  • Republican Talent's Center
  • Primary education
  • Secondary education
  • Higher education
  • Student standard
  • Secondary education standard
  • Scientific institutions

List of ministers

Political Party:   SPS   JUL   GSS   DSS   n-p

Name
(Birth–Death)		 Party Term of Office Prime Minister
(Cabinet)
Minister of Education
Dimitrije Dimitrijević SPS 11 February 1991 21 June 1991 Zelenović (I)
Danilo Ž. Marković
(1933–2018)		 SPS 31 July 1991 14 July 1993 Zelenović (I)
Božović (I)
Šainović (I)
Milivoje Lazić
(born 1938)		 SPS 14 July 1993 18 March 1994 Šainović (I)
Dragoslav Mladenović
(1937–2003)		 SPS 18 March 1994 11 February 1997 Marjanović (I)
Jovo Todorović
(1937–2015)		 SPS 11 February 1997 11 April 2000 Marjanović (I • II)
Milivoje Simonović
(1951–2000)		 JUL 11 April 2000 10 June 2000
(Died in office)		 Marjanović (II)
Katarina Lazović
(1935–2003)
Acting Minister to 13 July 2000		 JUL 10 June 2000 24 October 2000
Mihailo Jokić
(born 1948)		 SPS 24 October 2000 25 January 2001 Minić (transitional)
Minister of Education and Sports
Gašo Knežević
(1953–2014)		 GSS 25 January 2001 3 March 2004 Đinđić (I)
Živković (I)
Ljiljana Čolić
(born 1956)		 DSS 3 March 2004 16 September 2004 Koštunica (I)
Milan Brdar
(born 1952)
Acting Minister		 DSS 16 September 2004 19 October 2004
Slobodan Vuksanović
(born 1965)		 DSS 19 October 2004 15 May 2007
Minister of Education
Zoran Lončar
(born 1965)		 DSS 15 May 2007 7 July 2008 Koštunica (II)
Žarko Obradović
(born 1960)		 SPS 7 July 2008 14 March 2011 Cvetković (I)
Minister of Education, Science, and Technological Development
Žarko Obradović
(born 1960)		 SPS 14 March 2011 2 September 2013 Cvetković (I)
Dačić (I)
Tomislav Jovanović
(born 1951)		 n-p 2 September 2013 27 April 2014 Dačić (I)
Srđan Verbić
(born 1970)		 n-p 27 April 2014 11 August 2016 Vučić (I)
Mladen Šarčević
(born 1957)		 n-p 11 August 2016 28 October 2020 Vučić (II)
Brnabić (I)
Branko Ružić
(born 1975)		 SPS 28 October 2020 26 October 2022 Brnabić (II)
Minister of Education
Branko Ružić
(born 1975)		 SPS 26 October 2022 29 May 2023 Brnabić (III)
Đorđe Milićević
(born 1978)
Acting Minister		 SPS 31 May 2023 25 July 2023 Brnabić (III)
Slavica Đukić Dejanović
(born 1951)		 SPS 25 July 2023 Incumbent Brnabić (III)

See also

References
  1. "Година LXXIII – број 61". pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs (in Serbian). Službeni glasnik RS. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  2. "ЗАКОН О БУЏЕТУ РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ ЗА 2020. ГОДИНУ" (PDF). parlament.gov.rs. Народна скупштина Републике Србије. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. "Slavica Đukić Dejanović i zvanično novi ministar prosvete". Danas (in Serbian). 25 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
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