UNICEF Working Papers
Investing in Early Childhood Education in Serbia
Belgrade September, 2012
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Investing in Early Childhood Education in Serbia
Costing models for ensuring preschool education for all
Belgrade September, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report was commissioned by the UNICEF Country Office for Serbia.
The principal authors of this report are Sunčica Vujić, Department of Economics, University of Bath; Hana Baronijan, IPSOS Strategic Marketing; and Aleksandar Baucal, Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade.
The research methodology was guided by Jan van Ravens, International Consultant at the Faculty of the Edward Zigler Centre in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University.
Aleksandra Jović (UNICEF Serbia) had overall responsibility for the planning, design, development and quality assurance of this initiative.
We would like to thank all those who contributed their expertise to this initiative at different stages of process. These inputs were highly appreciated and critically important.
In particular, thanks goes to: Michel Crepon, Project Coordinator, Team for Improving Preschool Education in Serbia (IMPRES); Paun Čukavac, Consultant–Analyst, Republic of Serbia Statistics Office; Jelena Jakić, Researcher at IPSOS Strategic Marketing; Mr Predrag Lažetić, Director of the Centre for Education Policy; Svetlana Marojević, former Education Specialist, UNICEF Serbia; Lidija Miškeljin, Key Expert for Early Childhood Education, IMPRES; Želimir Popov, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Education and Science; Tanja Ranković, Education Specialist, UNICEF Serbia and Lesley Miller, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Serbia.
This initiative and report would not have been possible without the support of the European Commission. Additional support was provided through the individual contribution of Novak Djoković, UNICEF Ambassador for Serbia.
The contents of this publication a re the responsibility of contributors and do not reflect the views of the European Union or UNICEF. SADRŽAJCONTENTS
SAŽETAKEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SpisakList of Abbreviationsskraćenica SpisakList of Tablestabela SlikeList of Figures
UVODINTRODUCTION VažnaThe Crucial uloga Role predškolskog of Preschool obrazovanja Education za for decu Children iz marginalizovanih from Marginalized grupa Groups MetodološkeMethodological napomene Remarks i andstruktura Structure ovog of izveštaja the Report