Centre for Education Policy

Block I: Financing pre-university education

Introductory lecture: Approaches to education decentralisaton - challenges and examples

Prof. dr Jan Herczynski, University of Warsaw

Lecture: Discrepancies in the system of financing and steering pre-university education in Serbia

Mihajlo Babin, FEFA

Predrag Lažetić, CEP

Respondent: Situation in Serbia in compartison with other countries

Prof. dr Jan Herczynski, University of Warsaw

Lecture: Per capita system of financing education – benefits and challenges

Rosalind Levačić, Institute of Education, University of London

Block II: Education financing for the purposes of increased effectiveness and equity  

Lecture: Assessing the evidence on per student financing -- what to expect? What works? And what doesn't seem to work?

Lars Sondergaard, World Bank

Lecture: Equity of financing, financing for equity

Peter Rado, senior consultant in the Expanzio Consulting Ltd, Budapest

Panel: Financing of education – challenges at the different levels of authority, moderator Marija Mitrović, CEP

Ministry of Education

Ljubica Kiselički, Mayor’s office of the City of Subotica

Predrag Petrović, director of the Administrative office of the primary education schools in Bačka Topola

Milovan Marković, principal Srednja zanatska skola, Beograd

Borka Višnić, Education trade union Serbia

Block III: Models of financing higher education

Lecture:  Models of financing higher education in Croatia and Austria in the European context

Danijela Dolenec, Faculty of Political Sciences Zagreb, Croatia and ETH, Zürich

Lecture: System of financing higher education and research in Sweden and process of auditing its efficiency, effectiveness and equity

Nina Gustafsson Aberg, Swedish State Audit Agency (Riksrevisionen)

Panel: Financing of higher education in South East Europe – presentation of the study by the Centre for Education Policy, moderator Jelena Branković, CEP

Martina Vukasovic, CEP

Vanja Ivošević, CEP

Respondent: Danijela Dolenec, Faculty of Political Sciences Zagreb, Croatia

Block IV: Financial management at the institutional level

Discussion: How to achieve autonomous and responsive schools, moderator Vanja Ivošević

Peter Rado, senior consultant in the Expanzio Consulting Ltd, Budapest

Rosalind Levačić, Institute of Education, University of London

Representatives of Regional School Departments

Discussion: Financing of the disintegrated university, moderator Marija Mitrović

Prof. dr Milan Martić, Faculty of Organisational Sciences, University of Belgrade

Prof. dr Stevan Vasiljev, Faculty of Economics, University of Novi Sad

Mihajlo Babin, FEFA