Serbia to introduce obligatory secondary school education

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All signatories to UN's Sustainable Development Agenda, including Serbia, will have to introduce compulsory secondary education by 2030.

The head of a working group to implement the agenda, cabinet minister Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, says that Serbia may also decide in favor of primary school education lasting nine, instead of eight years - as in "most European countries" - or even ten, "and then have two years of focused secondary vocational education."

"This is something that will be worked on the most with the Ministry of Education," Djukic-Dejanovic, who is the minister without portfolio in charge of population policy, told TV Pink.
It is just one of 17 goals set before our country - that is, in front of "200 countries that are signatories to the agenda" she continued.

The remaining 16 goals relate to poverty...