[ad_1]
The “Alek Kavčić” Foundation published free online textbooks for the third and seventh grade of primary school, published by the Institute of Textbooks, to which the Serbian Publishers Association reacted by saying that they are not textbooks free, because parents have to print them at cost. .
Professor Aleksandar Kavčić’s idea that all students in Serbia have free textbooks raised a lot of dust, and he talked about that idea a long time ago.
Specifically, on the website of the “Alek Kavčić” Foundation, in the section “free textbooks”, parts of textbook sets for third and seventh grade were published in cooperation with the Textbook Institute, and Kovčić announced that fourth and eighth grade outfits were expected soon.
The textbooks are in electronic format and can be downloaded and printed for free. Citizens are already very interested and 10,000 textbooks were downloaded in a few days, Tanjug reported. By the way, this year, schools are deciding which textbooks third and seventh grade students will use for the next four years. Thus, the textbooks on the “Alek Kavčić” Foundation website can be used by students whose schools have opted for the Institute’s textbooks.
This move by Kavčić caused discontent among publishers. They claim that the textbooks are not free, but rather a “suspicious distribution of textbooks in PDF format through a private foundation.”
They claim that parents have to print textbooks that cost money, so the idea of free textbooks is disproved.
They recall that publishers are obliged by the Textbook Act to respect the prescribed standards of print quality, to adapt textbooks to special formats for blind and partially sighted students, to translate their textbooks into the languages of the national minorities.
“Some members of the Publishers Association have had PDF copies of their textbooks posted on their accessible sites and digital textbooks since last year,” the Association said in a statement.
Education Minister Branko Ružić told RTS today that the Textbook Law is clear: that publishers can be public companies, private entrepreneurs, or some legal entity registered for publication.
“The idea that we hear from Mr. Kavčić, who is a successful scientist, is nothing new, it is a very complex story in terms of the legislative framework. It is interesting, but it certainly requires a broader consensual approach and, if necessary, to discuss it in more detail and from a professional point of view. In any case, everything you can contribute to the educational process of students, parents and teachers is something that is appreciated if it is framed in the legal regulations “, concluded Ružić.
[ad_2]
