# Dejan Vuk Stanković

He told university teachers and parents at the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium that there would be no salaries if the blockades continued. Of the competition that would replace the head of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium, who had suspended teachers, he said there was “no need to rush”.

## Affairs

- [Bačka Palanka school psychologist fired over work stoppage](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/backa-palanka-psiholog-otkaz): According to Prpa's criminal complaint, he failed to dismiss, within the deadline, a principal who had not passed the required exam; the ministry denies this
- [Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovina-gimnazija): He said there was "no need to rush" the competition for principal and that he saw no politicisation in teachers' contracts not being renewed
- [Fifth Belgrade Grammar School: teacher dismissals and suspensions](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/peta-beogradska-gimnazija): As education minister, he told parents there would be “no salaries and no progress for children” if the blockade continued
- [Pressure on universities and professors' salaries](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/univerzitet-uskracivanje-plata): Said on TV Pink in September 2025 that teaching staff would not get paid if the academic year began with blockades

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/dejan-vuk-stankovic  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
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