%0 Journal Article %T Education System Reforms in an Unstable Political Situation: The Case of Serbia in the First Decade of the 21st Century %A Ivan Ivi£¿ %A Ana Pe£¿ikan %J CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal %D 2012 %I University of Ljubljana %X In the present paper, education reform in the Republic of Serbia since2000 is presented. The focus is on two major reform waves: 2000¨C2003and 2004¨C2005. We analyse why these broad educational interventionsfailed. After 2005, there was a lull in the reform process, a period with no major changes (2005¨C2010). A new phase of improving education policy in Serbia commenced with the adoption of Trends in the Development and Upgrading of the Quality of Education and Upbringing 2010¨C2020 (2010) and the conception and proposal of the Strategy of Education Development in Serbia to 2020+ (2012). The basic innovations in approach and conception in the new ¡°epoch¡± is outlined. %K Education policy %K Education reform %K Serbia %K Strategy of education development %U http://www.cepsj.si/pdfs/cepsj_2_2/cepsj_2_2_pp031_ivic_etal.pdf