Srdjan Verbic

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama apologized for the incident in which a bus transporting Serbian football team was stoned.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama conferred on Thursday with Serbian Minister of Education Srdjan Verbic and a group of students from Serbia and apologized for the incident in which a bus transporting Serbian football team was stoned.

Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Srdjan Verbic says there are "around 1,000 teachers more than Serbian schools need."

"They can count on severance payments, as there is now enough money in the budget," Verbic has been quoted as saying by Tanjug.

Assistant education minister assaulted

BELGRADE -- Education Minister Srdjan Verbic has announced that his assistant for development and high education was attacked on Thursday morning.

Verbic told a meeting of the Council for High Education that Milovan Suvakov was in the emergency center where he was receiving IV fluids and was conscious.

BELGRADE - The Council for National Minorities on Wednesday held a constitutive session, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki.

Serbia can say with pride that it represents a multi-ethnic community with around 30 national communities, Udovicki said at the session.

BELGRADE - A contract on the establishment of the Science and Technology Park Zvezdara was signed in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The park should bring together high-tech development companies and hire young scientists, thus speeding up the country's technological development.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Education Srdjan Verbic and representatives of two teachers' unions signed a deal to resolve outstanding issues and a special collective agreement for employees in primary and secondary schools and dormitories, which marked an end to a five-month teachers' strike action on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Education Srdjan Verbic stated that Serbia has a surplus of 10,000 teaching staff members and added that there is no way to reassign them all.

"The exact figure will come from statisticians, but we will have to begin the next school year with an optimised number of employees," Verbic told the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

10,000 education employees are surplus - minister

BELGRADE -- Education Minister Srdjan Verbic says Serbia has 10,000 surplus education sector employees, and that it will be impossible to "redistribute" all of them.

Protesting teachers pour water on education minister

BELGRADE -- Education employees have gathered in front of the Education Ministry in protest over their "material position, and the state of the education sector."

Their representatives were on Tuesday holding a meeting with Education Minister Srdjan Verbic that ended with no agreement.

BELGRADE - The 4th world conference of young ecologists, intended for students of master and doctoral studies that focus on environment protection, has started at the Petnica Research Station, near Valjevo, with 110 participants from 26 countries.