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Background: The education system in Montenegro is responsible for over 120,000 children and students across preschool, primary, and secondary education levels. Governed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, it employs over 10,000 teachers and other employees. Teachers in Montenegro play a crucial role in the education system, including in the ongoing reform processes.  The staff in schools include teachers and professional advisors, such as: school psychologists, pedagogoues, social workers, speech therapists and other special education professionals, and teaching assistants for inclusive education. Also, some schools employ associates for social inclusion for supporting the education of Roma and Egyptian students. The head of the school is the principal, and the school can also have assistant principals. Teacher Education Strategy (2017-2024)1 systemically regulates and sets direction for improvement of teacher education having in mind they significant role in the process of education.  The number of professional advisors, i.e. psychologists, pedagogues, and other professionals, increased over the last five years. Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation has recently changed Legal framework regulating number of support professionals working in preschools and schools, to ensure better and more tailored support. The increase in the number of professional advisors will be necessary in the upcoming period of intense reforms, and further changes are needed to improve the quality of work in schools, school ethos, relational trust, dropout and violence prevention and evolving inclusive education. Education Sector Anaylsis (2015-2020) emphasis that there is no policy document regulating the planning of human resources in the education sector and that absence of reliable baseline data about the current situation makes evidence-based future planning almost impossible. Thus it is recommended to improve the national HR database for education and determine the need for future teachers and other school professionals by level, subject, region, etc. by using student projection models for future HR planning. The Montenegrin Educational Information System (MEIS) was introduced in 2004 and is a comprehensive platform designed to support the education sector in Montenegro. MEIS today has various services serving for over 120,000 students, 10,000 teachers and other employees in education system, and educational institutions, enabling entry and access to information from the database. System serves as the crucial soruce of data used by the National Statistical Office (Monstat) and other relevant state instituions, serving as a valuable tool for managing and improving the education system in Montenegro.  It maintains a database of employees, but that database is incomplete and it needs update for evidence-based planning for future teacher policies. Therefore, the existing data needs to be reviewed and the missing datasets identified and collected (e.g. certain demographic information, prior academic/subject competency, training records). Upgraded teacher HR database within the Montenegrin Education Information System should provide essential data and ensure timely forecasts of the teaching staff needed for the education system.

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Education:

• An advanced university degree (Master's) in ICT. 

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