The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, headed by Ms Vesna Bratic, has announced changes to the criteria for awarding the title of teacher, as well as the revision of curricula. CdM interviewees say that the current education system requires changes, but that their implementation requires systematicity and transparency. The Center for Civic Education says that work on education reforms should be a continuous imperative, but at the same time, there should be recognition and preservation of previous positive practices and the position of ministers should not start from their own terms of office. It’s stressed that previous actions do not announce progress and that experiments are dangerous in this already sensitive and weak education system.
“It is obvious that the work of the educational system so far has not given adequate results, which is proven by the tradition of poor placement of Montenegro on the international scales of quality of education. The current system requires changes, both in terms of staff capacity and in terms of revision of curricula, which are outdated and inconsistent with modern methodologies and principles of education”, says Snezana Kaludjerovic, senior legal advisor at the Center for Civic Education, in a statement for CdM.
