ORGANISERS
Ministry of Education, Republic of Serbia (RS)
University of Novi Sad

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
UNESCO, UNESCO Division on Higher Education
Regional Cooperation Council
Ministry of Education, RS
Ministry of Science and Technology Development, RS
National Council for Higher Education, RS
National Council for Science and Tech. Dev., RS
Commission for Accreditation and QA, RS
Rectors' Conference of Serbian Universities
Students’ Conference of Serbian Universities
Higher Education Trade Unions, RS
Centre for Education Policy, Belgrade
Non-Governmental Organisations
Tempus Office Serbia

SUPPORTED BY
Tempus Programme
Open Society Serbia

GENERAL CHAIRS
Radivoje MITROVIĆ, state secretary
    Serbian Ministry of Education
 
Miroslav VESKOVIĆ, rector
    University of Novi Sad
 
Ladislav NOVAK, Coordinator
    “Novi Sad Initiative“ and STREW project
    University of Novi Sad

CHAIRS
Stamenka UVALIĆ-TRUMBIĆ, head
    UNESCO Division of Higher Education
 
Mladen DRAGAŠEVIĆ, head
    Regional Cooperation Council
 
Miloš NEDELJKOVIĆ, state secretary
    Ministry of Science and Technological Development
 
Nebojša JANIĆIJEVIĆ
    National Council on Higher Education
 
Nevenka ZARKIĆ-JOKSIMOVIĆ, vice-rector
    University of Belgrade

GENERAL PANEL RAPORTEUR
Veljko MALBAŠA
    University of Novi Sad

 
 
RATIONALES
Panel on Higher Education Reform will be Serbian experts’ summit aiming to explore a wider context of ten years of higher education modernisation reform in Serbia, and to envisage development in the next ten years.
This event is a part of activities under the scheme of STREW tempus project and can be seen as a follow up of the following events organised under the scheme of Novi Sad initiative:

• International Seminar on Higher Education,
  Novi Sad, 28 - 30 October 2005,
  http://www.novisadseminar.uns.ac.rs
   
• Dubrovnik Conference on Higher Education,
  Dubrovnik, 29 - 31 October 2007,
  http://www.dubrovnikconference.uns.ac.rs
   
• Sarajevo Conference on Higher Education,
  Sarajevo, 30 - 31 October 2009,
  http://www.sarajevoconference.uns.ac.rs
   
• International Forum on Higher Education Reform Foresight 2020,
  Dubrovnik, 27-29 September 2010,
  http://www.dubrovnikforum.uns.ac.rs

PARTICIPANTS
Forum has gathered participants representing a variety of institutions, experiences and responsibilities including representatives of international organizations, ministries, higher education authorities, higher education policy centres and universities, as well as Serbian higher education experts.

	Novi Sad Seminar 2005    Dubrovnik Conference 2007    Sarajevo Conference 2009    Dubrovnik Forum 2010

PROGRAMME
Panel on Higher Education Reform in Serbia has been one-day event with four sessions:

• Introductory Session
• Wider Context of Higher Education Reform
• Strategic Issues in Higher Education in Serbia
• Panel: Decade of Higher Education Reform in Serbia

The introductory themes covered:

• International perspective (UNESCO, RCC)
• Internal perspective (MoES, MoST, NCHE and CAQA)
• Experts’ and unions' views

The main idea behind the event was to provide an input for tuning reform strategy for the following ten years.