The Special State Prosecutor's Office will determine whether there is organized crime and corruption in the case of rewriting the external matriculation exam in the subject Montenegrin-Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian (CSBH) language and literature.
The Supreme State Prosecutor's Office (VDT) forwarded to the institution of Vladimir Novović a letter submitted by the educational community and the Parents Association at the beginning of the week.
"The letter submitted to the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office on June 19 by the Non-Governmental Association Prosvjetna zajednica and the Parents' Association was submitted to the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) for competent action. For further information, you can contact the Special State Prosecutor's Office", it was officially announced to "Vijesti" from the institution managed by Tatjana Begović.
In the explanation submitted to the associations, prosecutor Lidija Vukčević explains that the letter is being sent to special prosecutors because it "expresses doubts about the lawful conduct of officials who have the capacity of public officials".
"...As well as other officials of the Ministry of Education, the State Commission for the Matriculation Examination, the test of administrators, coordinators and directors of secondary schools in the process of evaluating the matriculation/professional examinations, organized in 2022/2023, especially for the CSBH language and literature subject, submitted for competent processing to the Special to the state prosecutor's office," Vukčević replied to the organizations.
In addition to examining the events at the CSBH external matriculation exam, when the first evaluation committee found that hundreds of students had given the same, incorrect answers to certain questions, the organizations also demanded that it be checked why there are still no results of the investigation by the Rožaj Basic Prosecutor's Office in the case when the mathematics test reached the mid-graduates before the exam began.
"We expect that the prosecutors will react quickly and that they will treat this issue as a priority," the executive director of the Parents' Association, Kristina Mihailović, told "Vijesta" yesterday.
In the memo, which will be the subject of special prosecutors' attention, it is also stated that, immediately after taking the test for CSBH language and literature, "evidence of copying within the Viber group called 'Druženje'" appeared in the public, as well as that the representatives of the administration of the Examination Center and the Ministry of Education were immediately informed of this.
"Apart from them, the director of the Junior High School 'Danilo Kiš' from Budva, Krsto Vuković, also submitted this information and evidence (screenshots from the group) to the media, who then informed the public about it. During the evaluation of the tests, the members of the Evaluation Commission determined that hundreds of high school graduates had answers that indicated rewriting, on the basis of which they requested additional instructions from the State Matriculation Commission, the Ministry of Education and the Examination Center on how to act in this case. They claim that after several unsuccessful attempts to request instructions via e-mail, they received an answer at a meeting attended by the chief evaluator to mark the tests of those students separately, that is, to record what they observed on each one. They submitted that information to the Matriculation/Professional Examination Commission," it added.
In the letter, the associations remind that, according to the regulations on the method, procedure and time of taking matriculation and vocational exams, any use of illegal means leads to disqualification, about which the students were informed orally before the start of the exam, as well as with a written warning on the initial pages of the test.
After the graduates found out that they had received zero points, they protested with their parents in front of the Ministry and the Examination Center.
After the discussion between Minister Miomir Vojinović and their representatives, it was agreed that the tests will be reviewed again, which the members of the Evaluation Commission refused, after which the Government dismissed the leadership of the Examination Center.
The new committee re-examined the papers, and most of the students passed the exam, some even with high grades.
"According to media reports, which was confirmed by the mother of one of the students who primarily got a zero, the graduates were satisfied with the new grades... Commission members, i.e. the evaluators who initially found irregularities indicate that the Examination Center did not comply with the legal procedures and that new evaluators were hired who were not trained for that job," the letter reads.
At the same time, it added, the preliminary results of the English test were published, for which "there was also evidence of copying, but none of the students were disqualified."
Last week, two associations organized a protest in front of the Ministry, which was supported by over 30 organizations.
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