The Ministry of Education has provided free textbooks to certain categories of primary school pupils for the 2025/2026 academic year. For this purpose, 985 million dinars were allocated from the budget, 903,525 textbooks were distributed, and 96,165 pupils benefited from the program.
According to Tehsil365, this was reported by prosveta.gov.rs.
The free textbooks were mainly provided to the following groups:
Pupils from socially and economically disadvantaged families;
Pupils with special educational needs studying under an Individual Education Plan (IEP);
Primary school pupils from families with three or more children
Children of single parents;
Pupils suffering from rare diseases;
Pupils receiving care and support;
Hearing-impaired pupils who require textbooks in Serbian Sign Language in a special format.
The textbooks are also available in the languages of national minorities and cover core subjects for grades 1–8, including mathematics, mother tongue, nature and society, geography, history, chemistry, physics, biology, and foreign languages.