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Progress Report on the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Strategy for Education Development in Serbia by 2020 Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ACTION PLAN FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA BY 2020 18 PROGRESS REPORT ON ACTION PLAN FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA BY 2020 Content Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Conceptual and methodological notes ................................................................................................................... 12 Progress Report on the implementation of four objectives of the strategy for education development .... 14 Increasing the quality of education ..................................................................................................................... 14 Status review ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 Progress achieved in the reporting period .................................................................................................... 22 Increased coverage of education ......................................................................................................................... 38 Status report ....................................................................................................................................................... 38 Progress achieved in the reporting period .................................................................................................... 43 Improvement of Relevance ................................................................................................................................. 49 State of Affairs .................................................................................................................................................. 49 Progress achieved in the reporting period .................................................................................................... 53 Increasing the efficiency ....................................................................................................................................... 62 State of Affairs .................................................................................................................................................. 62 Progress achieved in the reporting period .................................................................................................... 66 Priorities in 2018 ........................................................................................................................................................ 70 Reports on Progress in accordance with Educational Levels ............................................................................. 75 Preschool Education ............................................................................................................................................. 75 Primary Education ................................................................................................................................................ 85 General and Art Secondary Education ............................................................................................................ 101 Secondary Vocational Education ...................................................................................................................... 111 Adult Education .................................................................................................................................................. 146 Education of National Minorities ......................................................................................................................... 150 Changes in the Social and the Educational Context from the Period of the Adoption of the Strategy .... 166 2 Summary The Strategy for Education Development in Serbia by 2020, was adopted at the session of the Republic of Serbia on 25th October 2012 and published in the “Official Gazette of RS” no. 107/2012 of 9th November 2012. The main objectives set forth by the Strategy with respect to the education development are: 1) Increasing the quality of the process and outcomes of education to the maximum attainable level - arising from scientific knowledge on education and respectable educational practice; 2) Increasing the coverage of population of the Republic of Serbia on all educational levels, from preschool education to lifelong learning; 3) Achieving and maintaining the relevance of education, particularly the one that is fully or partially funded by the public sources, by aligning the educational system structure with immediate and developmental needs of individuals and economic, social, cultural, media, research, educational, public, administrative and other systems; 4) Increasing the efficiency of the use of all the education resources, i.e. completion rate within the stipulated period, with minimum extended duration and reduced dropout rates. Apart from the main objectives, additional, specific objectives related to the development of each part of the education system have been defined. Specific strategic policies, actions and measures for each part of the system have been established, in order to achieve the planned objectives of education development. On 31st January 2015, the Republic of Serbia Government adopted the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Strategy for Education Development in Serbia by 2020 at the proposal of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MoESTD). The Conclusion on the adoption of the Action Plan (along with the text of the Action Plan) were published in the “Official Gazette of RS” no. 16 of 9th February 2015. The Action Plan ensured the implementation of individual activities (actions) defined by objectives and priorities of the Strategy and developed the method of their implementation, deadlines, key actors and facilitators, including the monitoring tools and performance indicators. This document represents the report on the results of the Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy, in the period 2015-2018. Its first part provides the Report on the four strategic goals while in the second part, the Report it focuses on the review of the output of the Action Plan per educational levels. 3 Increasing the quality of education Despite the notable achievements relating to the introduction of quality assessment system at all educational levels in Serbia in the past ten years, this system still provides insufficient information for bringing any conclusions as regards the quality of educational outcome. Accordingly, the effects of different measures taken to improve the quality of education, may not be presented in the form of measurable indicators of improvement (apart from certain aspects of educational relevance, as the segment of a quality education). The preschool education pilot project delivered in the period 2015-2018 covered the verification and improvement of the draft new Program Foundation and the concept of their implementation. This has displayed the system's responsibility in changing the significant pillar of the entire preschool education. On the other hand, concerning the issue of a greater program diversification, being one of the priorities of SEDS, there has been no significant progress in this respect, aside from the implementation of innovative projects (e.g. IMPRES, Kindergartens without Borders) paving the way for major changes in this field within the program "Inclusive Preschool Education in Serbia". This is the largest project at this level of education that will be funded by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (in the total amount of EUR 47 million). It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that many activities in the field of preschool education in the past years have had a preparatory character for this grand arrangement that is expected to significantly change the picture of the preschool education, both in terms of quality and coverage. A key change in the quality improvement plan in the reporting period (2015-2018) is perceived as initiating the changes in the paradigm of teaching and learning at Serbian schools. The new paradigm implies a greater inclination of teaching and learning towards achieving expected learning outcomes and developing competencies (key and inter-curricular ones). To begin with, this orientation is clearly highlighted in the new Law on Foundations of Education System (2017), and further detailed in the National Education Framework (2017). Overall, such orientation has shaped new plans and programs adopted for the first and fifth grade of the primary school and the first grade of the high school, with a plan to round up the curricular reform in all 12 years of general education in the next four years. In the secondary vocational education, for many years, such trend has resulted in the development of curricula that are consistent with the qualification standards, through modernized experimental profiles. Higher education institutions have the autonomy in the development of study programs. The process of national accreditation of programs is a systemic measure for promoting the quality of study programs. New accreditation standards for study programs were adopted at the end of 2017. Among other, they promote acquiring of both
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