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A dozen students rallied around the initiative to reduce tuition fees by 30 percent set up tents today in front of the Serbian Ministry of Education on Nemanjina Street in Belgrade, announcing a three-hour blockade of the Ministry and traffic.
Students pitch tents in front of the Ministry Photo: FoNet / Marija DjokovicTraffic on Nemanjina Street, towards Slavija, is in one lane due to the tents on the sidewalk and on the road.
In front of the marquee, there is a banner “How many of us have to ‘pass’ for something to change”, while a banner of the protest “Government (no) – insufficient (1)” was placed on the road.
Student Nikola Arsenić told reporters that by blocking the Ministry, they want to show that “the future of young people in Serbia is blocked.”
He recalled that a large number of world universities reduced tuition rates for students in May due to the coronary virus pandemic, while students in Serbia have no benefit.
According to Arsenić, they joined the demands with the students of the Faculty of Philology who protest against the suspension of the election of the dean, considering that all the rights of the students are in danger.
The president of the Association for the Protection of Constitutionality and Legality and the student’s legal advisor, Savo Manojlović, stated that, from a legal point of view, the student’s request was fair and “quite soft”.
Manojlovic said that the study contract was violated because a part of the students paid tuition during the state of emergency due to the coronary virus pandemic, although they did not obtain what was promised in the contract.
According to him, 30 percent of the lower tuition fees are a fair request and meeting them would not jeopardize the survival of the college.
Student Natasa Vlajsavljevic said that so far more than 15,000 signatures have been collected on the online petition for the reduction of tuition fees and said that students call every day “with their stories.”
“It is not possible to see in the media what the real situation is in the faculties, so we are trying to publish the stories of the students on the networks,” he said.
He said the students will not give up their fight.
A group of students resubmitted their applications to the Ministry of Education and were told that Deputy Minister Mladen Šarčević would contact them to discuss it.
Students drew the field in August and played volleyball and badminton, with a small number wearing protective masks.
There is no visible presence of the police in the meeting, with the exception of the building security members and the traffic police.
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