Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković stated today that an independent investigation will be launched regarding a question about the initial demands of student blockades, which appeared on the entrance exam for the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. This investigation will determine whether the entrance exam will be annulled.
“If there is room in the law, not to get revenge, but to apply the law – we will annul it (the entrance exam). Because the politicization of science and teaching is absolutely forbidden according to the positive legal norms regulating higher education,” Stanković told B92 television.
He said he does not know if the entrance exam will be annulled, but that he hopes to gather all relevant facts and circumstances and view them from the standpoint of applicable legal norms.
“We are not annulling anything in advance, but we are opening this as a case due to the provocative nature of that question, due to the incitement of the coming generation of students to blockades. I am not ruling on the case, because I am letting an independent investigation determine whether the law has been violated or not,” said the Minister of Education.
The author of that question, according to him, is “one of the dirtiest academic, in a moral sense, propagators of blockades and the destruction of the university,” whom he did not wish to name.
“He grossly abused the institution of the entrance exam to indoctrinate future freshmen and turn them into cannon fodder for his political ambitions,” Stanković said, claiming that the individual in question is a critic of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and Socialist Party of Serbia, who was a member of the socialists “due to a scholarship he received in 2000.”
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