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In Serbia, education in informatics in primary and secondary schools is not at adequate level because
of two reasons. First one is bad equipment and accessibility of computers for the purposes of
education, and second one is the low computer literacy of school-teachers. The necessity of teacher’s
further education has arisen. Serbia is deficient in educated teaching staff for informatics. According to
draft document of Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports “Development of politics and strategies
for professional education”, there are:
• absence of permanent and continuous education of teaching staff in primary and secondary
schools;
• lack of standards for knowledge and pedagogic skills for teachers;
• inadequate plans and syllabus for professional schools;
• completely dereliction of information technologies as possible effective reliance for professional
development of teaching staff and as a tool for modernization of teaching methods and techniques.
For verification of given facts, there are presented results of our analysis of data from Regional School
Directorate Nis (RSDN). This Directorate covers main cities in South Serbia (Nis, Prokuplje, Pirot).
There are 122 schools (78 primary and 44 secondary) with 299 Informatics teachers – 102 of them or
34% are in secondary schools and 197 or 66% are in primary schools. More than 40% are older than
50, and even 67% is older than 40. Such age structure implies low level of teacher’s knowledge about
new trends and technologies in informatics. Additional problem is that more than 30% (exactly 98
teachers) don’t have higher education. They have VI degree according to the Serbian law – it is similar
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to college (or lower) degree in Europe. Such education level is under expected education level for
teachers in Europe. Less than 27% (79 teachers) are educated at faculties probably with informatics in
syllabus. But, available data do not contain information about their diploma supplement, and there is
not exact information about number of teachers with higher education in informatics. Next 40% of
teaching staff have higher education inadequate for informatics teachers – such as degree in Physics,
Chemistry, Faculty of occupational safety, Defectology, Construction, General technical education etc.
Additional problem is informatics as an optional course in primary schools. Since there are not
syllabuses for informatics courses, an inadequate educated teacher decides what is important for
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