| Ministry of Education | |
| Native Name: | Министарство просвете |
| Native Name A: | Ministarstvo prosvete |
| Type: | Ministry |
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| Jurisdiction: | Government of Serbia |
| Headquarters: | Nemanjina Street 22 - 26, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Coordinates: | 44.8042°N 20.4621°W |
| Employees: | 430 [1] |
| Budget: | €1.928 billion [2] |
| Minister1 Name: | Slavica Đukić Dejanović |
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The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Министарство просвете|Ministarstvo prosvete) is the ministry in the Serbian government that oversees the country's education system. Slavica Đukić Dejanović is the incumbent minister.[3]
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.
There are several agencies and institutions that operate within the scope of the Ministry:
Political Party:
| Name | Party | Term of Office | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of Education | |||||||
| Dimitrije Dimitrijević | SPS | 11 February 1991 | 21 June 1991 | ||||
| Danilo Ž. Marković | SPS | 31 July 1991 | 14 July 1993 | ||||
| Milivoje Lazić | SPS | 14 July 1993 | 18 March 1994 | ||||
| Dragoslav Mladenović | SPS | 18 March 1994 | 11 February 1997 | ||||
| Jovo Todorović | SPS | 11 February 1997 | 11 April 2000 | ||||
| Milivoje Simonović | JUL | 11 April 2000 | 10 June 2000 | ||||
| Katarina Lazović | JUL | 10 June 2000 | 24 October 2000 | ||||
| Mihailo Jokić | SPS | 24 October 2000 | 25 January 2001 | ||||
| Minister of Education and Sports | |||||||
| Gašo Knežević | GSS | 25 January 2001 | 3 March 2004 | ||||
| Ljiljana Čolić | DSS | 3 March 2004 | 16 September 2004 | ||||
| Milan Brdar | DSS | 16 September 2004 | 19 October 2004 | ||||
| Slobodan Vuksanović | DSS | 19 October 2004 | 15 May 2007 | ||||
| Minister of Education | |||||||
| Zoran Lončar | DSS | 15 May 2007 | 7 July 2008 | ||||
| Žarko Obradović | SPS | 7 July 2008 | 14 March 2011 | ||||
| Minister of Education, Science, and Technological Development | |||||||
| Žarko Obradović | SPS | 14 March 2011 | 2 September 2013 | ||||
| Tomislav Jovanović | n-p | 2 September 2013 | 27 April 2014 | ||||
| Srđan Verbić | n-p | 27 April 2014 | 11 August 2016 | ||||
| Mladen Šarčević | n-p | 11 August 2016 | 28 October 2020 | ||||
| Branko Ružić | SPS | 28 October 2020 | 26 October 2022 | ||||
| Minister of Education | |||||||
| Branko Ružić | SPS | 26 October 2022 | 29 May 2023 | ||||
| Đorđe Milićević | SPS | 31 May 2023 | 25 July 2023 | ||||
| Slavica Đukić Dejanović | SPS | 25 July 2023 | Incumbent | ||||