Megatrend University

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.

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.

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.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Culture, Science and Technologic Development has implemented steps in order to establish the facts in connection to the disturbing allegations in the public which call into question the credibility of PhD title of Megatrend University Rector Mica Jovanovic, the Ministry released on Thursday.

BELGRADE - University professors, assistant professors, researchers, holders of doctoral degrees and doctoral students have launched a petition requesting that the Serbian minister of education immediately form an independent academic commission that would analyse the doctoral thesis of Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, Wednesday's issue of Politika reports.

Petition calls for independent commission

BELGRADE -- A petition is calling on the minister of education to immediately form an independent academic commission to analyze the doctoral thesis Nebojša Stefanović.

BELGRADE- State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Education Aleksandar Belic said Tuesday that a recent debate at Serbian parliament’s Committee on Education about alleged Ph.D. plagiarism by Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic had had a political ćaracter and announced greater transparency regarding all doctoral dišertations.

Vladimir Pavicevic, of the opposition Nova Stranka (New Party), told a Friday debate in parliament that the case of Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic's plagiarism of parts of his PhD thesis "could not be more obvious".

Critics of minister's dissertation baffled by PM's comment

BELGRADE -- The authors of an article about Nebojša Stefanović's doctoral dissertation say they are unclear what PM Aleksandar Vučić meant when he said it was "stupid."