It will be interesting to see today's 'decision makers' become future patients, treated by the online doctors who have sat their exams in 2020 and 2021. Damir Marjanovic Balkan leaders have become experts in daily political abuse of education. A tragic truth is that education was the first victim of
If we take a moment to leave the safe, reliable zones of numbers and statistics and turn to personal stories – if we put faces to the numbers, especially invisible or less visible faces of those insufficiently represented in the statistics – we will notice an especially vulnerable world within
Both teachers and students have enrolled in online learning: the first group often one of digital impostors, and the latter - digital natives. Schools have moved into homes, erasing familiar rhythms, opening up a new world of alienation, disorientation, and conflict... Bozena Jelusic Education has gone through a period of
How to be a student in pajamas or a student without classmates? How to experience falling in love for the first time? Through the Internet? Aren’t these valid questions? Fadil Lepaja I continue with persistence and care to look after the clothes, school uniform, the tasks/lessons schedule while packing the
This year demonstrated several problems. Often there is a lack of student participation in class due to different reasons. Of course, this undermines the seriousness and ethics of the university. Andi Koxhaj In the spring of 2020, when we started an immediate lockdown, complete attention was shifted to online platforms,
The primary function of education during Covid seems to be - an indicator of ’lockdown’ gravity, a sort of normality metric. School’s on, the epidemic is fine; the epidemic is back, school is cancelled... and so on. If education were a switch, it would have broken by now. Voja Zanetic
No crime raises such a drumfire of moralizing excuses for the perpetrators and moralizing accusations against the victims as the cases of sexual violence. Irena Cvetkovic Testimonies and speaking-оut of women who have been victims of sexual violence and harassment are beginning to flood the public discourse in the region.
The Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts has initiated creation of the Committee for Prevention of Sexual and Gender-based Violence, which will strictly follow a zero tolerance policy to any form of discrimination and harassment, sexual or other. Mika Aleksic's case has moved the whole region, one of the responses being
Ruzica Simic, women's rights activist and human rights expert, highlights that a lack of understanding, judgement, and prejudice are the most common reasons women in Kosovo stay silent and don't report sexual abuse. Encouraged by actress Milena Radulovic bravely speaking out, there have been two recent reports of sexual harassment.
The Niksic SOS phone line for female victims of domestic violence has been active for over 20 years. Since March last year and the appearance of Covid-19 in Montenegro, they've had 2,012 women ask for help, which represents an 18% growth. The Executive Coordinator of this organisation, Natasa Medjedovic Pistalo,
