Optimization of the Network of Schools in Serbia Optimization of the Network of Schools in Serbia 73 Novi Knezevac Subotica Kanjiza 0 − 30
Serbia’s school with respect to these Small schools attributes at the end of the current section. However, we feel that there We now proceed to look at the spa- is a minimum level of communica- tial distribution of key indicators tion that must be guaranteed each related to school size. As we have school - the existence of at least one seen in previous sections, the de- quality phone connection. For this mographic trends in Serbia are such reason we have placed this param- that many small schools are getting eter among our basic indicators of smaller still. At some point their total school infrastructure. enrollment goes to zero. This need not automatically signal the perma- Out of all of the schools in our data- nent closing of such schools - that base 3,517 gave an answer to this follows if the schools in question are question. Of these, 1,091 (31.0%) not working for several consecutive have no phone connection of any years. kind, 1,421 (40.4%) have a single connection with pulse dialing, 386 Serbia currently has 106 schools (11%) have more than one such that aren’t working. All but one of connection, 390 (11.1%) have a these schools are primary satellite single phone connection with tone schools. One is a secondary school. dialing, 207 (5.9%) have more than The distribution of satellite schools one such connection and, finally, that were not working in the 2001/ only 22 schools (0.6%) said they 2002 school year is shown in Map 5. had an ISDN connection.
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