ISPITIVANJE NEJEDNAKIH ŠANSI U OBRAZOVANJU U SRBIJI: PREPORUKE ZA JAVNE POLITIKE
EXAMINING UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION IN SERBIA: EVIDENCE-BASED PUBLIC POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to investigate the types of obstacles that children from families with unfavourable socioeconomic characteristics face in reaching high education in Serbia and to propose evidence-based public policy recommendations. To achieve the defined goal, standard techniques of data collection and analysis were used in the study–desk research and focus groups.The findings suggest that both financial and non-financial barriers affect children coming from families with less favourable socioeconomic features in Serbia. Financial barriers indicate the importance of the parents’ wealth status in terms of the ability to cover the costs of the child’s education, while non-financial barriers indicate the importance of the parents’ emotional and other support to the child during schooling. The recommended measures to remove financial barriers concern the reform of the high education financing system or the introduction of a loan system to cover the costs of attending high education, while the measures to overcome non-financial barriers refer to the introduction of bridge programs, the reform of affirmative programs and the introduction of retention programs.

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