[6] The beginnings of education in Serbia date from 11th and 12th century with the establishment of schools at Roman Catholic monasteries in Titel and Bač in today's Vojvodina, which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
People were also educated in Serbian Orthodox monasteries like Sopoćani, Studenica and Patriarchate of Peć.
The degrees were:[8] Students are organized into classes (odeljenje) of at least 5 for preschools and at least 15 for primary and secondary schools.
The students belonging to the class are randomly chosen a few weeks before they start attending the 1st grade.
Most primary and high schools have their Student council (đački savet/parlament) and Peer Team (vršnjački tim).
Parent councils propose excursions, watch over actions involving students' money and debate about events happening in school.
[11] Children enroll in primary schools at the age of seven (usually, all students in a class were born in the same year).
However, it is possible for students to enroll at the primary school one year earlier if they were born before March.
The Minister of Education, Žarko Obradović, said that even though strategy would be implemented in the future, it required constitutional changes.
In some places, there are sports competitions in Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer, Handball, Athletics, Gymnastics and Judo every year.
After graduating from the primary school, students take an entrance exam called matura (lat.
if they don't have enough points, but they had chosen very competitive schools), they make another list for the Second Enrollment Deadline.
Various music, science,language, philology and ballet schools sort students out based on their talent and skill.
Grammars (gimnazija) take four years to complete and offer general and broad education, awarding students a High school diploma.
Students are advised to continue their education after graduation as it is very hard to find a job with a gymnasium diploma.
Usually, they teach 10-14 general subjects (Serbian, mathematics, geography, biology, history, foreign language etc.
Textbooks are chosen by the teachers of the particular school, and they are bought in the local bookstore, or as second-hand (from those who passed the particular grade).
However, even "unusable" (damaged) books are accepted, and no-one is fined, as minister Žarko Obradović said.
If the student is from a European country, they can be provided the lectures of mother tongue and culture, free or with compensation.
Compulsory vaccinations, physical examinations and dental checkups are carried out in schools for free.
Also, during compulsory school running races and similar events, medical teams are always present.
There are six regular exam blocks every school year and several irregular ones which are different for every college or university.
Tertiary level institutions accept students based on their grades in high school and entrance exams results.
Serbian citizens can study at public universities for free, while tuition is low for foreign students.
[19] Postgraduate education (post-diplomske studije) was made of further specialization and doctorate during the times of Socialist Yugoslavia.
Specialization today is non-academic and considered as improvement in different parts of the profession (seminars, researches, etc.
), and doctorate is considered as the third part of the bachelor-master-doctor continuum present in the tertiary educational system.
Its purpose is to educate people who didn't graduate primary or high school or both, so they could have better chances of getting a work.
Most people attending adult education are minors who missed their chance to enroll in primary schools (most of them being of Roma descent).