Ljiljana Čolić

Ljiljana Čolić Љиљана Чолић Ph.D.
Minister of Education and Sport
In office 3 March 2004 – 19 October 2004
Preceded by	Gašo Knežević
Succeeded by	Slobodan Vuksanović
Personal details
Born	1956 Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Political party	Democratic Party of Serbia

Ljiljana Čolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Чолић) (born 1956, Zemun, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a former Minister for Education and Sport in the Government of Serbia.

Čolić, a self-avowed "devout 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 works as an associate professor teaching Turkish at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology; and in Priština, she worked as guest professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.

Čolić was a deputy in the Federal Parliament and one of the founders of the Democratic Party of Serbia. She speaks English and French fluently.

Čolić was named Minister of Education and Sport in March 2004. As a conservative government superseded a reformist one, Dr. Čolić worked hard to alter and reverse changes from the previous government. These measures included: suspending the teaching of English from first grade; limiting the use of modern and sophisticated methods; and the introduction of Serbian Orthodox religious teaching as a compulsory subject from the first grade.

She made an appearance in the international mass media spotlight on September 7, 2004, when she ordered Serbian schools to suspend the teaching of evolution unless they introduced creationism. [1]

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