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Professors, associates and students of the Faculty of Philology asked Plato before the Faculty of Philosophy to urgently schedule a session of the Scientific-Teaching Council to vote on the proposal for a new dean, and the request was attended in writing and delivered to the Ministry of Education.
Photo: Katarina PantelićThe professor of the Faculty of Philosophy Leon Cohen, who is one of the signatories of the letter of support to colleagues from the Faculty of Philology, said in the protest that such an act endangers the autonomy of the University, and that the Ministry of Education to annul the “unsustainable solution”. Organization of opportunities in the Faculty of Philology.
The professor of the Faculty of Philology Iva Draškić Vićanović said that, for the first time since 2006, the Scientific-Teaching Council elected several commissions and organs of the faculty who had waited for months and years for their training, which was interrupted by order of the Inspection of Education. for the election of the dean of that faculty scheduled for September 21, suspended.
He stated that as of 2006, the Faculty of Philology did not have the right to declare the election of the dean in secret, which “caused the fall of the Faculty of Philology”, and that the secret vote was prevented by the intrusion of the teaching inspection .
“To put it mildly, it is unusual that the same educational inspection has shown no interest in the collapse in which former dean Ljiljana Markovic introduced the Faculty of Philology, from legal misappropriations to criminal acts,” said Draskic Vicanovic, as reported by H1.
He said that “students have the right to an institution with a legally elected dean”, adding that the order of the educational inspection that prevented the election of the dean by secret ballot was “a hard blow not only for the autonomy of the Faculty of Philology but also for the University of Belgrade. “
In the request sent to the Ministry of Education, the employees request the acting dean of the Faculty of Philology to urgently schedule a session of the Scientific-Teaching Council in which the proposal for a new dean will be voted on.
Some of the slogans are “Stop the financial mafia in the Philological University”, “We defend academic integrity”, “Philology is not for sale”, “Today is a plagiarist, an academic tomorrow”.
The protest also sent a request for former dean Ljiljana Markovic to be relieved of her duties as an adviser to the Minister of Education.
At the protest, an open letter was read to the Rector, Senate and Council of the University of Belgrade, stating that “the academic and general public in Serbia have known for several years about the scandals and abuses in the Belgrade Faculty of Philology: for extremely disorderly financial operations, huge income, the number of employees, the illicit accumulation of key functions and numerous cases of plagiarism. “
“All of this was possible in part because of the deliberately nurtured organizational chaos, which led the Faculty of Philology to a state of complete institutional and legal ruin.” For years, the Faculty has not been able to adopt a new statute that would be harmonized with the Law on Higher Education and the Statute of the University of Belgrade, to hold periodic elections of key bodies and constitute them properly, so even today it does not have a Ethics Commission. report instances of plagiarism and other forms of non-academic behavior, “the letter said.
It is no secret, as the letter adds, that “the greatest responsibility in such a situation rests with Prof. Dr. Ljiljana Markovic, who was dean from 2016 to 2019, and then interim dean until July this year, when she was relieved of his functions after a public reprimand given him by the Ethics Committee of the University of Belgrade due to several violations of the professional code of ethics. “
Actress Svetlana Bojković supported the protest
Actress Svetlana Bojković declared today that she supported the protest by professors and students of the Belgrade Faculty of Philology to “point to the erosion of education in Serbia”, which is a “process that must be stopped”.
Bojkovic told Nova.rs that he attended the protest to support “the entire academic community and the Faculty of Philology to get out of the crisis and fight for the right path.”
“We live in a world where there is a great erosion of education, which is decreasing every day. “Some new faculties are appearing under the principle: ‘You look in the evening, you shine in the morning,'” Bojković said.
Education is “one of the pillars for the betterment of society,” he said, noting that healthy tissue should be supported, which seeks that our children are truly educated. I think there is hope, it just takes one fight. “
Bojković read the verses of Jovan Jovanović – Zmaj to the protest participants.
The actor Milan – Caci Mihajlović attended the protest of professors and students of the Faculty of Philology, to support him, who, instead of speaking, read them a poem by Vladislav Petković Dis “Our days”.
The protest was also supported by professors Vladeta Janković, Biljana Stojković and Ognjen Radonjić, the politician Boško Obradović, representatives of the “Let’s not drown Belgrade” initiative.
An open letter from the protesters to the Rector, Senate and Council of the University of Belgrade affirms that “the academic and general public in Serbia have known scandals and abuses in the Belgrade Faculty of Philology for several years”, but did not know they overcome.
The students gather before the protest. pic.twitter.com/uIiNe9ffhF
– Marko M. Dragoslavic (@DragoslavicM) September 29, 2020
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