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'''Tinde Kovač Cerović''' (; born 1954) is an educator and political figure in Serbia.
==Private life and academic career==
Kovač Cerović holds a [[master's degree]] and a [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Belgrade]]'s Department of Philosophy, where she is employed. She also teaches the psychology of education and educational policy in the university's Department of Psychology. She was active with [[Group MOST]] and the Centre for Antiwar Action during the [[Yugoslav Wars]] of the 1990s, was an advisor for educational policies at the [[Open Society Institute]] from 1999 to 2001, and was a senior advisor for the [[Roma Education Fund]] from 2005 to 2007.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OEY8dD Biogrаfijedr Tinde Kovač Cerović], Social Democratic Party, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
Kovač Cerović was married to [[Stojan Cerović]], a Serbian journalist and prominent opponent of [[Slobodan Milošević]]'s administration in the 1990s.<ref>"Stojan Cerovic, liberal thinker and analyst of former Yugoslavia, dies," ''Associated Press Newswires'', 21 March 2005.</ref> Cerović died in 2005.
==Administrative and political career==
Kovač Cerović was Serbia's deputy [[Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)|minister of education]] from 2001 to 2004, during the [[Prime Minister of Serbia|premiership]]s of [[Zoran Đinđić]] and [[Zoran Živković (politician)|Zoran Živković]]. In 2002, she indicated that the ministry was drafting a new policy for elementary and secondary schools, with specific plans for educational reform in Serbia's national minority communities. This followed a report from the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]'s ministry of national and ethnic minorities indicating that as much as 78% of Serbia's [[Romani people in Serbia|Roma]] population and 70% of its [[Vlachs of Serbia|Vlach]] population were illiterate.<ref>"Illiteracy of Romanies as high as 80 per cent," ''British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political'', 2 August 2002 (Source: B92 TV, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1630 gmt 1 Aug 02).</ref> The following year, Kovač Cerović helped secure the passage of reforms that were intended to raise the educational level of all students in Serbia; these changes were largely overturned in 2004 by the incoming administration of [[Vojislav Koštunica]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2MoT8wv "Jednom nastavnik, uvek nastavnik"], ''Glas javnosti'', 30 April 2004, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
Kovač Cerović was later a special advisor to deputy prime minister [[Božidar Đelić]] on education and social issues from 2007 to 2008 and was state secretary in the ministry of education, science, and technological development between 2008 and 2012, during [[Mirko Cvetković]]'s ministry.<ref>"Serbian and American Youth Exhibition at Dom Omladine," ''Targeted News Service'', 4 April 2011.</ref> During her time in office, she was responsible for overseeing pre-university education as well as integration with the [[European Union]] and international co-operation in the field of education.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OEY8dD Biogrаfijedr Tinde Kovač Cerović], Social Democratic Party, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
In August 2008, at the beginning of her tenure as state secretary, Kovač Cerović said that three of the most serious challenges facing Serbia's education system were a lack of equality among various groups, particularly Roma children; the fact that Serbia did not provide free educational materials such as textbooks and school meals; and a lack of competitiveness in a European education context.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OCTYmE Jelena Grujić, "Investicija u znanje donosi državi bar trideset puta veću dobit"], ''Vreme'', 28 August 2008, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref> She gave an extended interview on Serbia's educational policies for the journal ''[[Vreme]]'' in 2010, promoting an inclusive approach to early education and defending a requirement that all students (unless specifically exempted) be required to attend school at age six and a half. She also condemned the past practice of sending large numbers of Roma children to special schools or special classes and highlighted the introduction of anti-discriminatory policies to target these activities.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2PayPRM Jelena Jorgačević, "Škola spremna za svu decu"], ''Vreme'', 2 September 2010, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
There were rumours that Kovač Cerović would be appointed as Serbia's minister of education following the [[Serbian parliamentary election, 2014|2014 parliamentary election]], when a new administration was formed under [[Aleksandar Vučić]]. She indicated that she would only accept the position if [[Boris Tadić]]'s [[New Democratic Party (Serbia)|New Democratic Party]] joined the country's [[coalition government]]; it did not, and she was not appointed.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OCU0uM Vesna Andrić, "Treća sreća?"], ''Danas'', 17 April 2014, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2PdSX5B 'Tinde Kovač i Rakić neće u vladu'], B92, 17 April 2014, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the [[Social Democratic Party (Serbia)|Social Democratic Party]] (''Socijaldemokratska stranka'', SDS) in October 2014, and Kovač Cerović was selected as one of its vice-presidents.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OCU11O "Izabrani potpredsednici SDS"], B92, 27 October 2014, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref> The SDS contested the [[Serbian parliamentary election, 2016|2016 parliamentary election]] in alliance with the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia)|Liberal Democratic Party]] (LDP) and the [[League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina]] (LSV). Kovač Cerović was given the seventeenth position on their combined [[electoral list]]; the list won thirteen members, and she was not returned.<ref>[https://ift.tt/1T13JIz Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка)], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.</ref> She is currently the second SDS candidate in sequence with the right to a mandate if an elected SDS member leaves the assembly.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Belgrade]]
[[Category:Serbian women in politics]]
[[Category:Serbian educators]]
[[Category:Social Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians]]
==Private life and academic career==
Kovač Cerović holds a [[master's degree]] and a [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Belgrade]]'s Department of Philosophy, where she is employed. She also teaches the psychology of education and educational policy in the university's Department of Psychology. She was active with [[Group MOST]] and the Centre for Antiwar Action during the [[Yugoslav Wars]] of the 1990s, was an advisor for educational policies at the [[Open Society Institute]] from 1999 to 2001, and was a senior advisor for the [[Roma Education Fund]] from 2005 to 2007.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OEY8dD Biogrаfijedr Tinde Kovač Cerović], Social Democratic Party, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
Kovač Cerović was married to [[Stojan Cerović]], a Serbian journalist and prominent opponent of [[Slobodan Milošević]]'s administration in the 1990s.<ref>"Stojan Cerovic, liberal thinker and analyst of former Yugoslavia, dies," ''Associated Press Newswires'', 21 March 2005.</ref> Cerović died in 2005.
==Administrative and political career==
Kovač Cerović was Serbia's deputy [[Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)|minister of education]] from 2001 to 2004, during the [[Prime Minister of Serbia|premiership]]s of [[Zoran Đinđić]] and [[Zoran Živković (politician)|Zoran Živković]]. In 2002, she indicated that the ministry was drafting a new policy for elementary and secondary schools, with specific plans for educational reform in Serbia's national minority communities. This followed a report from the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]'s ministry of national and ethnic minorities indicating that as much as 78% of Serbia's [[Romani people in Serbia|Roma]] population and 70% of its [[Vlachs of Serbia|Vlach]] population were illiterate.<ref>"Illiteracy of Romanies as high as 80 per cent," ''British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political'', 2 August 2002 (Source: B92 TV, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1630 gmt 1 Aug 02).</ref> The following year, Kovač Cerović helped secure the passage of reforms that were intended to raise the educational level of all students in Serbia; these changes were largely overturned in 2004 by the incoming administration of [[Vojislav Koštunica]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2MoT8wv "Jednom nastavnik, uvek nastavnik"], ''Glas javnosti'', 30 April 2004, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
Kovač Cerović was later a special advisor to deputy prime minister [[Božidar Đelić]] on education and social issues from 2007 to 2008 and was state secretary in the ministry of education, science, and technological development between 2008 and 2012, during [[Mirko Cvetković]]'s ministry.<ref>"Serbian and American Youth Exhibition at Dom Omladine," ''Targeted News Service'', 4 April 2011.</ref> During her time in office, she was responsible for overseeing pre-university education as well as integration with the [[European Union]] and international co-operation in the field of education.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OEY8dD Biogrаfijedr Tinde Kovač Cerović], Social Democratic Party, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
In August 2008, at the beginning of her tenure as state secretary, Kovač Cerović said that three of the most serious challenges facing Serbia's education system were a lack of equality among various groups, particularly Roma children; the fact that Serbia did not provide free educational materials such as textbooks and school meals; and a lack of competitiveness in a European education context.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OCTYmE Jelena Grujić, "Investicija u znanje donosi državi bar trideset puta veću dobit"], ''Vreme'', 28 August 2008, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref> She gave an extended interview on Serbia's educational policies for the journal ''[[Vreme]]'' in 2010, promoting an inclusive approach to early education and defending a requirement that all students (unless specifically exempted) be required to attend school at age six and a half. She also condemned the past practice of sending large numbers of Roma children to special schools or special classes and highlighted the introduction of anti-discriminatory policies to target these activities.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2PayPRM Jelena Jorgačević, "Škola spremna za svu decu"], ''Vreme'', 2 September 2010, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
There were rumours that Kovač Cerović would be appointed as Serbia's minister of education following the [[Serbian parliamentary election, 2014|2014 parliamentary election]], when a new administration was formed under [[Aleksandar Vučić]]. She indicated that she would only accept the position if [[Boris Tadić]]'s [[New Democratic Party (Serbia)|New Democratic Party]] joined the country's [[coalition government]]; it did not, and she was not appointed.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OCU0uM Vesna Andrić, "Treća sreća?"], ''Danas'', 17 April 2014, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2PdSX5B 'Tinde Kovač i Rakić neće u vladu'], B92, 17 April 2014, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>
The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the [[Social Democratic Party (Serbia)|Social Democratic Party]] (''Socijaldemokratska stranka'', SDS) in October 2014, and Kovač Cerović was selected as one of its vice-presidents.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2OCU11O "Izabrani potpredsednici SDS"], B92, 27 October 2014, accessed 15 August 2018.</ref> The SDS contested the [[Serbian parliamentary election, 2016|2016 parliamentary election]] in alliance with the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia)|Liberal Democratic Party]] (LDP) and the [[League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina]] (LSV). Kovač Cerović was given the seventeenth position on their combined [[electoral list]]; the list won thirteen members, and she was not returned.<ref>[https://ift.tt/1T13JIz Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка)], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.</ref> She is currently the second SDS candidate in sequence with the right to a mandate if an elected SDS member leaves the assembly.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Belgrade]]
[[Category:Serbian women in politics]]
[[Category:Serbian educators]]
[[Category:Social Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians]]
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