PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT 2017-2020 The Government will stimulate strengthening of the school teams with professionals from different profiles: educators, psychologists, and teachers for disabled, sociologists, speech therapists, social workers and medical professionals (where there is need for them). The Bureau for Development of Education will be restructured and it will develop into Institute for Development of Education. This will be a state educational “think-tank” in the framework of which several sectors will work and they will continuously design research in the area of education with the aim to improve the quality of educational system. The Government will establish Scientific – Research Center for talented pupils in which they will be able to acquire additional knowledge, to prepare for state and international competitions and to start more serious research work. In a period of one year, the state commissions composed of university professors and supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, will evaluate all textbooks for primary and secondary education and they will set clear rules that must be respected. Those textbooks that have fundamental errors in matter and which are unsuitable for the age of the pupils will be withdrawn from usage. Concomitantly, in the curriculum we will conduct release of unnecessary and harmful content, in particular those that incite aggression, intolerance, hate and discrimination. Greatest part of the textbooks and other means will be accessible in electronic form. For this measure the Government will stimulate: domestic authors, audio-video production, production of educational and scientific-popular shows as school materials with content and subject matters from the curriculum. We will encourage national televisions to devote time for broadcasting of these programs which will be aligned with the educational curriculum. Implementation of this measure will create equal opportunities for quality education in all parts of the country. The Government will initiate reform and restructuring of the vocational high-school education in cooperation with the private sector. In this way, the companies may participate, in programming and financially, in this level and kind of education. Hence, the vocational schools will become more attractive for the pupils, in particular with the possibility for direct employment after completion of this kind and level of education. Moreover, we will promote mechanisms and instruments with the aim of which the employers will be motivated to cooperate, to invest and to participate in the activities of education and training. In that regard, the measure for relief of profit tax up to 30% for investments in the area of education is also foreseen. In the whole country, generally, the mismatch between the market demands and the supply of skilled labor force is obvious. With the preparation of the National Framework of Qualifications, we will enable connection of the educational programs that are being offered by the high – education institutions with the economy and the labor market. In the past period, the university was intentionally put on the margins of the society, and the professors were being silenced. With deregulation of the high education, the Government will secure the constitutionally guaranteed autonomy, academic freedom, dignity and the reputation of the university. 31