Education

The Bulgarian community in Cyprus can serve as a model for our communities around the world, Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin said during his visit to the island nation.

Minister Vigenin met with the local Bulgarian community and handed out the diplomas for graduates of the Bulgarian weekend schools. In turn, the students put up a short performance, including poetry recitals.

A witness said that former Croatian Defence Council fighter Josip Tolic, on trial for abusing Serb detainees in Odzak and Bosanski Brod, fatally assaulted a prisoner held in a school.

BELGRADE - The Megatrend University council aceepted on Saturday the resignation of rector Mica Jovanovic relieved him of office, the university has stated.

Jovanovic said on Friday he would resign as head of that private university and vice president of the Conference of Universities, which was requested by Education Minister Srdjan Verbic.

BELGRADE - The rector and owner of Belgrade's Megatrend University Mica Jovanovic said for state-run Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) on Friday that he was resigning from all his posts and that he was currently staying in London.

RTS said on its website Jovanovic was in the British capital seeking his “lost” doctorate.

Professor Srbijanka Turajlic said the only way to resolve the row over whether the Interior Minister plagiarised his university dissertation was for the academic to "wake up and press the authorities" about it, she told BIRN.

Instead, the academic community seems intent on pushing the issue of Nebojsa Stefanovic's PhD thesis under the carpet, the retired professor added.

Rector at center of controversy "to resign"

BELGRADE -- Rector and owner of the private Megatrend University Mića Jovanović on Friday announced he would resign from all positions, and revealed he was in London.

BELGRADE - The rector of the private Megatrend university Mica Jovanovic has received a doctor's degree from the Faculty of Organisational Sciences in Kranj, Slovenia, but holds no doctor's degree from the University of London, Serbian Minister of Education Srdjan Verbic has said, calling on Jovanovic to respond to these claims or resign.

Some 18,500 children in Macedonia stay out of school, many of them forced to do hard work or beg, the First Children’s Embassy – Megjashi, an NGO, said, marking June 12, the World Day against Child Labor.

Owner and Rector of Megatrend lies to have got PhD title in London

Mica Jovanovic, the owner and Rector of the Megatrend lied to have got the PhD title in London. Serbian Minister of Education Srdjan Verbic announced this at yesterday’s urgently held conference.