Bad food and rising prices: students weather tough times

Hit with soaring tuition fees, crumbling facilities and dreadful food, university students across Serbia are taking to social media and relying on a black-market meal trade to fight back against conditions some have compared to a “horror movie”, writes Mina Pejakovic for AFP.

For Slobodan Todosijevic, a civil engineering student in Belgrade, the declining quality in services offered by universities grates all the harder as costs continue to rise. Just last year, fees in his programme jumped from RSD108,000 to RSD130,000 per year (US$1,000 to US$1,200) – a considerable sum in the Balkan nation where the median monthly wage is just RSD73,700.

Like countries across the globe, Serbia has been slammed by rising inflation, where prices averaged 12% higher in 2023 compared with the previous year.
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