Sarajevo High School Students Asked for Ministry of Education at State Level

The trigger for our protest is a missed opportunity for participation in the Erasmus(+) program. For this kind of thing to not be repeated in the future, it is necessary that a Ministry of Education is formed at the state level, because when one body decides that then more will be saved on time and money, and on patience’’, said in a statement for Fena Denis Challenger, student at the Second Gymnasium in Sarajevo.

Sixty high school students joined an informal group yesterday in front of the B&H Parliament in Sarajevo to express their dissatisfaction with the state of education.

Representatives of this informal group pointed out that the trigger to the problem was in regards to the Erasmus(+) program, since they too, will be students in about half a year to which this program applies.

They also think that the B&H educational system is obsolete and lack of practical work, without which young people do not have a chance to progress and to reach the standards for employment according to world standards.

‘’The second requirement is that generally, more money needs to be invested in the education of youth, because if we do not have an educated youth, then we have nothing. We do not have a future B&H’’, said Challenger.

He thinks that it is necessary to connect the market with faculties and employers, so that when young people finish faculty they will be offered a job, and not be sent to the employment office.

(Source: Fena)