The Ministry said that it did not have full information about the response to the strike at universities because some universities had not sent their reports and that the academic year 2004/2005 hand not yet begun in some departments.
The day-long warning strike was organised on World Teachers' Day by three major trade unions with the support of smaller unions in order to draw attention to the lack of care for the education and science sector and to demand a 12 per cent pay rise.
The largest response was from teachers in the counties of Istria and Osijek-Baranja, where 82 per cent were on strike, and in the counties of Sibenik-Knin and Virovitica-Podravina (80 per cent each). The smallest response was in the counties of Bjelovar-Bilogora (55 per cent), Krapina-Zagorje and Koprivnica-Krizevci (57 per cent each).
As for the universities, the largest response was at the Faculty of Computer Science in Varazdin, where more than 97 per cent of the staff took part in the strike, followed by the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, with 90 per cent, the Faculty of Traffic Engineering in Zagreb, with 80 per cent, and the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb, 75.4 per cent.
Teachers at the Croatian Studies and the Faculty of Science in Zagreb did not go on strike.