# Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš

The first faculty in Niš to back the student blockade. From July 2026 its staff went three months without a single dinar of pay and lost their health insurance, while every other faculty received its funding, and the Government split off three of its departments into a new Faculty of Serbian Studies. The faculty sued the Ministry of Education and filed a criminal complaint against minister Dejan Vuk Stanković, who, according to the former dean, called the withheld funding a punishment for the blockade. The ministry denies it is retaliating against the staff.

## Affairs

- [Pressure on universities and professors' salaries](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/univerzitet-uskracivanje-plata): No money for salaries from 20 July to 22 October 2026; back pay received by 3 November; sued the Ministry

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/filozofski-fakultet-nis  
As of: 6 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)