Ljiljana Čolić

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Ljiljana Čolić is the former Serbian Minister for Education and Sport and a young Earth creationist.

[edit] Education and career

Čolić, an Orthodox Christian, is a professor of Ottoman language and paleography at the University of Belgrade and she holds a graduate degree in philosophy and a Ph.D. in philology. She is an associate professor of Turkish at the University of Belgrade in the Faculty of Philology and a guest professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Priština.

Čolić was a deputy in the Federal Parliament and one of the founders of the Democratic Party of Serbia; she became the Minister of Education and Sport in March 2004. As part of a conservative government following a reformist one, Dr. Čolić worked hard to undo the previous government's policies, including suspending the teaching of English from first grade. She also proposed reform which would ban computer science from schools for alleged health reasons.[1]

Čolić was the subject of international media attention in 2004, after she ordered Serbian schools to stop teaching the theory of evolution unless they also taught creationism.[2]

Researchers, teachers, the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts and some 40 non-government organisations and human rights groups voiced their concern over the move. After widespread protest, her party boss and Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica was forced to ask for her resignation.

After her resignation, Čolić appeared regularly in lectures organized by Srpski sabor Dveri.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. Ozračeni Darvin (in Serbian)
  2. [1]
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