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Siniša Mali Plagiarism Scandal
Siniša Mali plagiarism scandal refers to the political scandal in Serbia which led to the 2019 annulment of the 2013 doctoral dissertation of economist and politician Siniša Mali by the Belgrade University. After the first plagiarism claims in 2014, the process spanned for over five years, during which Mali progressed from the position of mayor of Belgrade to the office of the finance minister in the Serbian government, and became a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). In May 2024 Mali becamFirst Deputy Prime Minister of The Republic of Serbia Also, after all the events with his previous PhD, Mali enrolled in doctoral studies at the Technical University in Košice, Slovakia, where he attended the "Finance" study programme. In June 2023, he defended his PhD thesis entitled “The Flypaper Effect in the Republic of Serbia”, so he is awarded the academic degree o"Philosophiae doctor" (PhD). Mali said that the subject of his work waThe flypaper effect (FPE)in the R ...
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Siniša Mali
Siniša Mali ( sr-Cyrl, Синиша Мали, ; born 25 August 1972) is a Serbian economist and politician serving aFirst Deputy Prime minister of Serbiasince 2024 and as minister of finance since 2018. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS),http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2017&mm=11&dd=18&nav_category=11&nav_id=1326844 Ničić već stigao do Predsedništva, izabrani i Mali i Vesić he previously served as mayor of Belgrade from 2014 to 2018, and as the president of the Temporary Council of Belgrade from 2013 to 2014. Following the dismissal of Rade Basta in June 2023, he also served as acting minister of economy. The discovery of plagiarism in Mali's doctoral dissertation was one of the triggers for the anti-government protests leading to the 12-day students' blockade of the university's main building and the decision of the University of Belgrade to revoke his doctorate. Believing that his doctorate was unjustly revoked, Mali initiated court proceedin ...
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Aleksandar Martinović
Aleksandar Martinović ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Мартиновић; born 15 June 1976) is a Serbian politician. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of Serbia, Serbian government from 2022 to 2025. He most recently served as Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy (Serbia), minister of agriculture, forestry, and water economy. Before his appointment to cabinet, he served several terms in the National Assembly of Serbia, Serbian parliament. Formerly a prominent figure in the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Martinović has been a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012. Early life and career Martinović was born in Slavonski Brod, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad's law faculty in 1999 and later received a master's degree (2003) and a doctorate (2011) from the same institution. He has been employed in the faculty since 2 ...
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University Of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university. The university has around 59,600 enrolled students and over 4,600 academic staff members. Since its founding, the university has educated more than 378,000 Bachelor's degree, bachelors, around 25,100 Magister (degree), magisters, 29,000 Specialist degree, specialists and 14,670 Doctorate, doctors. The university comprises 31 faculties, 12 research institutes, the Belgrade University Library, university library, and 9 university centres. The faculties are organized into four groups: social sciences and humanities; medical sciences; natural sciences and mathematics; and technological sciences. History 19th century The University of Belgrade was established in 1808 as the ...
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University Of Belgrade Faculty Of Economics
The University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics (/''Ekonomski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu'') is one of the educational institutions of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is located in the city center of Belgrade, in the Savski Venac municipality. The Belgrade's School of Economics is Serbia's leading educational institution in business and economics. History Initially established on 31 March 1937 as ''Economics-Commercial High School'', the Faculty of Economics was the first center of higher education dedicated to the study of economics in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. On 7 February 1947, The Faculty of Economics was included in the composition of the University of Belgrade. Its curriculum includes courses in economic analysis and policy; marketing; accounting, auditing and financial management; trade and commerce; finance, banking and insurance; tourism and hotel industry; statistics and informatics; management and international economics and foreign trade. In i ...
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European Association For Quality Assurance In Higher Education
The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), formerly the European Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, was established to represent quality assurance and accreditation Accreditation is the independent, third-party evaluation of a conformity assessment body (such as certification body, inspection body or laboratory) against recognised standards, conveying formal demonstration of its impartiality and competence to ... organisations from the European Higher Education Area and internationally. Activities In 2003, the Ministers of the Bologna process asked ENQA to elaborate "an agreed set of standards, procedures and guidelines" for higher education. The resulting European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG) was adopted by the Bologna Process Ministers in 2005 and was revised in 2015. EQAR ENQA worked with the other "E4" agencies, the European University Association (EUA), the European Association of Institutions i ...
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), after the June 2024 European elections, from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states e ...
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Ministry Of Education, Science And Technological Development (Serbia)
The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia () is the ministry in the Serbian government that oversees the country's education system. Dejan Vuk Stanković is the incumbent minister. History The Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development was established on 11 February 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 on 14 March 2011. When the third cabinet of Ana Brnabić was established on 26 October 2022, it was again separated from the education ministry as the ministry of science, technological development, and innovation. Subordinate institutions There are several agencies and institutions that operate within the scope of the Ministry: * Institute for the Advancement of Education * Institute ...
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Srđan Verbić
Srđan Verbić () (born 1970, Gornji Milanovac) is a Serbian physicist, educator and minister of education of Serbia (2014–2016). Biography He earned a degree in theoretical physics from the University of Belgrade. In 2001, he obtained a master’s degree with a thesis on artificial intelligence, and in 2014, he completed a Ph.D. with a dissertation on knowledge assessment tests, which he defended at his alma mater. He served as the head of the physics program at the Petnica Science Center and, since 2003, has been involved in the international PISA research project. Beginning in 2005, he worked with the Institute for Education Quality and Evaluation in Serbia, initially as a coordinator and, from 2013 onward, as the director of its research center. He is the author of several school textbooks on physics and has initiated numerous science popularisation projects.On 27 April 2014, upon the recommendation of the Serbian Progressive Party, he was appointed Minister of Educat ...
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Zoran Đorđević (politician)
Zoran Đorđević ( sr-cyr, Зоран Ђорђевић, born 11 February 1970) is a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Defence of Serbia in the Government of Serbia from 2016 to 2017, and the Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy from 2017 to 2020. Education and career Đorđević graduated from the School of National Defense in Belgrade. He later acquired a joint-master's degree in international banking and finance from the John Naisbitt University Faculty of International Economics and the Panteion University. He currently completes his doctoral studies in the field of economic sciences at the University Business Academy in Novi Sad. He gained professional experience in leading positions in financial and executive management domestic and regional companies including Comtrade, Kabel-X and others. Political career From 2012, he served as the Deputy Minister of Defence of Serbia. He also serves as the president of the Political Council for ...
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Aleksandar Antić (; born 7 May 1969) is a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Energy and Mining (Serbia), Minister of Energy and Mining between 2014 and 2020. Antić previously served as the Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure (Serbia), Minister of Transportation from 2013 to 2014. He is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Career Antić was born on 7 May 1969 in Belgrade. He was a councilor in the Municipal Assembly of Zvezdara for two terms (1992–1996) and was elected Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) member of the Assembly of the Belgrade, City of Belgrade three times. From 2004 to 2008, he was the President of the SPS parliamentary group in the Assembly of the City of Belgrade. He served as the president of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade from 2008 to 2012. In 2013, he became a Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure (Serbia), Minister of Transportation in the Cabinet of Ivica Dačić, Government of Ivica Dači ...
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Aleksandar Vulin
Aleksandar Vulin (born 2 October 1972) is a Serbian politician and lawyer who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 2024 to 2025. He served as the director of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) from 1 December 2022 until 3 November 2023. Additionally, he previously served as director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija from 2012 to 2013, minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohija from 2013 to 2014, minister of labour, employment, veteran and social policy from 2014 to 2017, minister of defence from 2017 to 2020, and as minister of internal affairs from 2020 to 2022. He has been called "man of Moscow". Vulin is the founder and former president of the Movement of Socialists (PS), a political party he headed from 2008 to 2022. Vulin was a deputy of Mirjana Marković, the wife of Slobodan Milošević, and served as a high-ranking member of League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia (SK–PJ) and Yugoslav Left (JUL) parties, while in the ...
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