High Education Reforms in Serbia : Overview
Slika 9) To summarize, Serbia has started implementing the principles of the Bologna Process. The evaluation of the high education system showed that the education system has significantly moved from the starting point in the 2001-2003 period. However, the current state of universities is still unsatisfactory. Diplomas are not recognized world-wide, high level of bribe and corruption exists, university curricula are out-of-date and do not provide adequate practical knowledge for the labour market demand.
The Bologna Declaration was signed in September 2003. Nevertheless, a lot of work on the implementation of the undertaken obligations is yet to be done. The cooperation with EU universities should continue, as well as the exchange of academics and students and lining up with the current trends in the European high education system.
Trying hard to implement the principles of the Bologna process successfully and become a knowledge-based society, Serbia is still in need of European help. And Lifelong Learning is the principal medium of achieving this goal.
Lifelong learning opens many possibilities: it creates an open learning environment, it connects people, it communicates innovative ideas with its limitless flow of information and options. It fights for better living conditions where the most important criteria are thought and knowledge, the miraculous affirmation of people's power to transform both themselves and the world. |
