Ministry of Education (Serbia)

The Ministry of Education (Serbian: Министарство просвете, romanized: Ministarstvo prosvete) is a ministry in the Government of Serbia that oversees the country's education system. Dejan Vuk Stanković is the incumbent minister.^[1]

Ministry of Education

Министарство просвете Ministarstvo prosvete
Ministry overview
Formed	11 February 1991; 34 years ago (1991-02-11)
Jurisdiction	Government of Serbia
Headquarters	Nemanjina Street 22–26, Belgrade
Minister responsible	Dejan Vuk Stanković
Website	www.mpn.gov.rs

History

The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development was established in 1991. From 2001 to 2007, the Ministry of Youth and Sports was merged into the Ministry of Education. It was later split from the Ministry and reestablished. The Ministry of Science and Technological development, which had existed under different names since 1991, was merged into the education ministry 2011. When the third cabinet of Ana Brnabić was established in 2022, it was again separated from the Ministry of Education as the Ministry of Science, Technological development, and Innovation.

Subordinate bodies

There are several bodies that are ssubordinated to the Ministry:

• Institute for the Advancement of Education
• Institute for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education
• Intellectual Property Office

List of ministers

Political Party:   SPS   JUL   GSS   DSS   n-p

Name			Party	Term of Office		Prime Minister (Cabinet)
Minister of Education
		Dimitrije Dimitrijević	SPS	11 February 1991	21 June 1991	Zelenović (I)
		Danilo Ž. Marković (1933–2018)	SPS	31 July 1991	14 July 1993	Zelenović (I) Božović (I) Šainović (I)
		Milivoje Lazić (born 1938)	SPS	14 July 1993	18 March 1994	Šainović (I)
		Dragoslav Mladenović (1937–2003)	SPS	18 March 1994	11 February 1997	Marjanović (I)
		Jovo Todorović (1937–2015)	SPS	11 February 1997	11 April 2000	Marjanović (I • II)
		Milivoje Simonović (1951–2000)	JUL	11 April 2000	10 June 2000 (Died in office)	Marjanović (II)
		Katarina Lazović (1935–2003) Acting Minister to 13 July 2000	JUL	10 June 2000	24 October 2000
		Mihailo Jokić (born 1948)	SPS	24 October 2000	25 January 2001	Minić (transitional)
Minister of Education and Sports
		Gašo Knežević (1953–2014)	GSS	25 January 2001	3 March 2004	Đinđić (I) Živković (I)
		Ljiljana Čolić (born 1956)	DSS	3 March 2004	16 September 2004	Koštunica (I)
		Milan Brdar (born 1952) Acting Minister	DSS	16 September 2004	19 October 2004
		Slobodan Vuksanović (born 1965)	DSS	19 October 2004	15 May 2007
Minister of Education
		Zoran Lončar (born 1965)	DSS	15 May 2007	7 July 2008	Koštunica (II)
		Žarko Obradović (born 1960)	SPS	7 July 2008	14 March 2011	Cvetković (I)
Minister of Education, Science, and Technological Development
		Žarko Obradović (born 1960)	SPS	14 March 2011	2 September 2013	Cvetković (I) Dačić (I)
		Tomislav Jovanović (born 1951)	n-p	2 September 2013	27 April 2014	Dačić (I)
		Srđan Verbić (born 1970)	n-p	27 April 2014	11 August 2016	Vučić (I)
		Mladen Šarčević (born 1957)	n-p	11 August 2016	28 October 2020	Vučić (II) Brnabić (I)
		Branko Ružić (born 1975)	SPS	28 October 2020	26 October 2022	Brnabić (II)
Minister of Education
		Branko Ružić (born 1975)	SPS	26 October 2022	29 May 2023	Brnabić (III)
		Đorđe Milićević (born 1978) Acting Minister	SPS	31 May 2023	25 July 2023	Brnabić (III)
		Slavica Đukić Dejanović (born 1951)	SPS	25 July 2023	16 April 2025	Brnabić (III) Vučević (I)
		Dejan Vuk Stanković (born 1973)	n-p	16 April 2025	Incumbent	Macut (I)

See also

• Education in Serbia