Promene u položaju visokoškolskih ustanova i perspektive univerzitetske autonomije u Republici Srbiji prema novom Zakonu o visokom obrazovanju
Changes in the Position of Higher Education Institutions and Perspectives of University Autonomy in the Republic of Serbia According to the New Law on Higher Education

Author(s): Vladimir Mikić
Subject(s): Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Public Law, Higher Education , Evaluation research
Published by: Fondacija Centar za javno pravo
Keywords: Serbia; higher education; University; autonomy; Ministry of Education; changes;
Summary/Abstract: The article provides a critical review of the new Law on Higher Education of the Republic of Serbia, primarily in its parts that relate to university autonomy. Instead of providing precise criteria for assessing the higher education institutions' quality assurance and for placing sharp curbs on any further proliferation of disproportionately small and education-wise ill-conceived universities, it appears that the Law's most important purpose rests in amassing almost an excessive amount of power in the hands of the responsible ministry, i.e. the government. Visibility of this approach comes primarily – but not solely – from reading the Law's norms that deal with regulatory bodies' and university authorities' newly-created structure, and their responsibilities, at the center of which comes the political power of the country. Although the Law gets some things right, it does not place deserved emphasis on protection of university autonomy. Rather, it typically takes away certain important features of this constitutionally enshrined principle, which puts the whole higher education legislative enterprise into a politically assertive, and therefore inadmissible, perspective.

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