In service in educational policy of Serbia

At the declarative level, in-service of teachers is a cornerstone of the whole educational policy of the Republic of Serbia, and without it, there is no managing of any of single educational policies (such as policy of inclusive education, adult education, etc.). INSET, as the priority area, was the concern of the state through intensive legislative activates in recent twelve years. Those changes were not coexistent and did not go in the same direction. As the consequence of such searching, there was the need for the research which would deal with the degree of managing (realisation) of the formulated educational policy of in-service of teachers. This educational policy predicts compulsory in-service of teachers with warning of losing the teacher's licence, and it offers possibilities for teacher's professional development, determines the unit of local management as an instance responsible for financing INSET, as well as measures of regulating offers of educational programmes of professional development. The policy of managing policy of compulsory professional development in praxis and possible reasons for this state are presented in this paper.