# Ministry of Education (Serbia)

The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Министарство просвете, romanized: Ministarstvo prosvete) is the ministry in the Serbian government that oversees the country's education system. Slavica Đukić Dejanović is the incumbent minister.

## History

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.

## Subordinate institutions

There are several agencies and institutions that operate within the scope of the Ministry:
* Institute for the Advancement of Education
* Institute for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education and Upbringing
* Intellectual Property Office
* Republican Talent's Center
* Primary education
* Secondary education
* Higher education
* Student standard
* Secondary education standard
* Scientific institutions

## List of ministers

Political Party:  SPS  JUL  GSS  DSS  n-p
| Name (Birth–Death) | Name (Birth–Death) | Party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Prime Minister (Cabinet) |
| Minister of Education |||||||
| | Dimitrije Dimitrijević | SPS | 11 February 1991 | 21 June 1991 | Zelenović (I) |
| | Danilo Ž. Marković (1933–2018) | SPS | 31 July 1991 | 14 July 1993 | Zelenović (I) Božović (I) Šainović (I) |
| | Milivoje Lazić (born 1938) | SPS | 14 July 1993 | 18 March 1994 | Šainović (I) |
| | Dragoslav Mladenović (1937–2003) | SPS | 18 March 1994 | 11 February 1997 | Marjanović (I) |
| | Jovo Todorović (1937–2015) | SPS | 11 February 1997 | 11 April 2000 | Marjanović (I • II) |
| | Milivoje Simonović (1951–2000) | JUL | 11 April 2000 | 10 June 2000 (Died in office) | Marjanović (II) |
| | Katarina Lazović (1935–2003) Acting Minister to 13 July 2000 | JUL | 10 June 2000 | 24 October 2000 | Marjanović (II) |
| | Mihailo Jokić (born 1948) | SPS | 24 October 2000 | 25 January 2001 | Minić (transitional) |
| Minister of Education and Sports |||||||
| | Gašo Knežević (1953–2014) | GSS | 25 January 2001 | 3 March 2004 | Đinđić (I) Živković (I) |
| | Ljiljana Čolić (born 1956) | DSS | 3 March 2004 | 16 September 2004 | Koštunica (I) |
| | Milan Brdar (born 1952) Acting Minister | DSS | 16 September 2004 | 19 October 2004 | Koštunica (I) |
| | Slobodan Vuksanović (born 1965) | DSS | 19 October 2004 | 15 May 2007 | Koštunica (I) |
| Minister of Education |||||||
| | Zoran Lončar (born 1965) | DSS | 15 May 2007 | 7 July 2008 | Koštunica (II) |
| | Žarko Obradović (born 1960) | SPS | 7 July 2008 | 14 March 2011 | Cvetković (I) |
| Minister of Education, Science, and Technological Development |||||||
| | Žarko Obradović (born 1960) | SPS | 14 March 2011 | 2 September 2013 | Cvetković (I) Dačić (I) |
| | Tomislav Jovanović (born 1951) | n-p | 2 September 2013 | 27 April 2014 | Dačić (I) |
| | Srđan Verbić (born 1970) | n-p | 27 April 2014 | 11 August 2016 | Vučić (I) |
| | Mladen Šarčević (born 1957) | n-p | 11 August 2016 | 28 October 2020 | Vučić (II) Brnabić (I) |
| | Branko Ružić (born 1975) | SPS | 28 October 2020 | 26 October 2022 | Brnabić (II) |
| Minister of Education |||||||
| | Branko Ružić (born 1975) | SPS | 26 October 2022 | 29 May 2023 | Brnabić (III) |
| | Đorđe Milićević (born 1978) Acting Minister | SPS | 31 May 2023 | 25 July 2023 | Brnabić (III) |
| | Slavica Đukić Dejanović (born 1951) | SPS | 25 July 2023 | Incumbent | Brnabić (III) Vučević (I) |