Licence examination for secretaries of educational institutions
The Provincial Secretariat for Education, Regulations, Administration and National Minorities - National Communities organises the Licence Examination for Secretaries of Educational Institutions based in the territory of AP Vojvodina.
The licence examination is taken in line with the Rulebook on the Licence Examination for Secretaries of Educational Institutions ("Official Gazette of the RS", no. 96/23).
The duties of the institution's secretary may be performed by a person who has the appropriate higher education, in accordance with the law regulating the fundamentals of the education system and the work permit-licence.
The duties of a secretary, without a licence, may be performed by:
1) secretary - intern;
2) a person who meets the requirements for a secretary, in terms of acquired education with work experience acquired outside the institution, under the conditions and in the manner established for interns;
3) a person who has taken up a temporary employment in order to substitute for the absent secretary.
Secretary- intern - who, based on the mentor's report, has completed the Induction Programme for Secretaries and the training for taking the licence examination for secretaries, acquires the right to take the licence examination for secretaries.
A secretary /intern submits a request to take a licence examination to the institution after having completed the internship, the Induction Programme for Secretaries and the training programme, as a condition for taking the licence examination for secretaries.
The institution sends the application to the Provincial Secretariat for Education, Regulations, Administration and National Minorities – National Communities within 15 days of its submission, along with the following:
1. Certified copy of a diploma on the acquired education of a registered candidate for taking the licence examination;
2. Certificate of the manager that a candidate has successfully completed the Induction Programme for Secretaries;
3. Certificate of completed training programme as a condition for taking the licence examination;
4.Copy of the employment contract;
5.Copy of ID card of a candidate;
6.Evidence of payment of the examination costs.
The cost for taking the licence examination for secretaries will be borne by the institution where a candidate is employed, while the resit cost will be borne the candidate.
The amount of 15,000.00 RSD is to be paid as follows:
• Bank account number: 840-742331843-51
• Model and reference number: 97 51223094270161
• Recipient: Budget of AP Vojvodina, Provincial Secretariat for Education, Regulations, Administration and
National Minorities – National Communities
• Purpose of payment: Reimbursement of costs for taking examination for secretaries
The licence examinations for secretaries are organised throughout the year before the Committee formed by the Provincial Secretary for Education, Regulations, Administration and National Minorities – National Communities.
The licence examination for secretaries has a written and oral part.
The written part includes topics falling within the scope of activities performed by a secretary of an institution. The written part of the examination lasts two hours and a candidate may use respective regulations.
The oral part of the examination consists of the following areas: regulations from the field of education; administrative proceedings and administrative dispute; labour legislation.
Notice of the scheduled qualifying examination is delivered to the institution which submitted the application, no later than 30 days prior to the examination date.
Rulebook on the Licence Examination for Secretaries of Educational Institutions („Official Gazette of the RS“, No. 96/23) (The document is currently available in the Serbian language only)
Application for taking the licence examination for secretaries of educational institutions (The document is currently available in the Serbian language only)
For further information please contact:
Jovana Grahovac Begović
(Office: 68/I; Tel: 021/487-4552)
e-mail: jovana.grahovac@vojvodina.gov.rs
Slobodanka Stanković
(Office I/68, Tel: 021/487-42-26);
e-mail: slobodanka.stankovic@vojvodina.gov.rs
All nominal words, used in this text in the masculine gender, which have a feminine gender, imply the same nominal words in the feminine gender.