Zoja Bojanić-Lalović, the director of Podgorica elementary school "Štampar Makarije", will be the new director of the Institute for Textbooks, while it is planned that Vladimir Vojinović, an associate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić, will be appointed as the editor-in-chief of the Institute, "Vijesti" has learned from the Ministry of Education.
Personnel changes will follow at the beginning of 2014, and they are taking place after the State Audit Institution found that 700.000 euros were spent without coverage this summer. For this reason, in October, the police took all the documentation of the Institute and questioned Marko Jokić, who was the president of the Board of Directors until the findings of the SAI. Jokić was then dismissed in August, so he assumed the position of editor-in-chief at the Institute, and soon this former assistant minister of education and, on behalf of DPS, the staff who controlled teachers and influenced them to side with the ruling party, will be without those positions.
Marko Jokic
Bojanić-Lalović will replace the director of the Institute, Nebojša Dragović, who is formally responsible for questionable spending of money. According to "Vijesti" sources, Dragović was in the shadow of Jokić at the Institute and carried out his orders.
In July, the State Audit Institution published a report stating that last year the Institute used money in a non-domestic way, that the financial report is full of material errors, that the presented activities and information and transactions were not in all materially significant aspects in accordance with the applicable regulations, and that The institution was not managed with due care.
The report states that the Institute for Textbooks and Teaching Aids operated with a loss of EUR 669,8 thousand last year, thanks to the write-off of outdated textbooks in the amount of EUR 465.000 and EUR 127.000 higher than projected salary expenses.
This summer, Jokić was succeeded as president of the Board of Directors by the secretary of the Ministry of Education, Srđa Raičević, and now he is being replaced as editor-in-chief by Vojinović, who is considered close to DPS and the view of the Montenegrin language promoted by Adnan Čirgić. He was recently in the focus of the public after prof. Dr. Tatjana Bečanović from the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić submitted to the Court of Honor of the University of Montenegro a proposal to initiate proceedings against him, the dean of that faculty, prof. Dr. Blagoj Cerović and Prof. Milorad Nikčević, Ph.D., due to, as he claims, malfeasance surrounding the formation of the Committee for the Evaluation of Vojinović's Doctoral Dissertation. Bečanović claims that Vojinović "falsified" the submission of his doctoral dissertation "The status of the oral in the Montenegrin written narrative from 1990 to 2006".
"It is understandable that a candidate with an average grade of 7,31 can hardly fulfill the high scientific requirements and criteria set before him by his doctoral dissertation, but was this much malfeasance and scandal necessary? Because his mentor simply didn't take him to Osijek to get his doctorate," says Bečanović's letter.
According to unofficial information, the offices for new staff are already being renovated, and among the employees of the Institute, who believe that they should have professional autonomy, it is believed that the new solutions mean the intention of disciplining them.
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