CORPORATE MILOVAN STANIŠIĆ PH.D., PRESIDENT OF SINGIDUNUM UNIVERSITY
Study Programmes For Faster Employment Although Serbia is only just introducing a dual education system, Singidunum University has for years insisted, in cooperation with industry, on a better education and observation of the quality of students, which leads to a third of graduates gaining employment already during their practical training placements in companies
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- We have for years been developing relationingidunum University is Serbia’s first • Singidunum University has 10,000 students ships with businesses in the field of dual edprivate university to be accredited and cooperates with over 500 companies. How ucation. The effort and investment have paid under the new Law on Higher Education do those companies respond to the drive to off in manifold ways, because in that way, and whose curricula are aligned with employ young people through the process of through cooperation with industry, we have the principles of the Bologna Declaration and dual education, which has not yet been institutionalised in Serbia? ensured a better education and better obserenable the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). All study programmes are market-orientated, which improves the quality of education and the rate In the last couple of years we have had a special activity of the University of employability of graduates both focused on the formation of our own companies, or companies with in the country and abroad. foreign partners, through which we offer students practical training. That • How would you evaluate conditions for the development of dual education in Serbia and what are the preconditions for its full implementation? - The starting conditions for dual education are not favourable. Following privatisation and during the war years industry was devastated and, with industrial capacities becoming obsolete, we do not have enough successful, modern, appropriately staffed companies, or employees in them that have the theoretical knowledge presented to students in real factories and in the sphere of real business.
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improves the quality of education and raises the percentage of graduates who are employable both in the country and abroad
HUMAN RESOURCES DUAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRAINING (VET) SYSTEMS
vation of student quality. For these reasons, about a third of students gain employment during the course of their practical training placements in companies, while a further twenty per cent gain employment in those same companies after graduation. Mandatory work placements in the third and fourth year of studies for students of economics, tourism, hospitality, information technology, software engineering, electrical engineering and English Language is actually their ticket into the business