Pristina University: The Chief Inspector of Education is putting pressure on us through police

Pristina University “has been working on establishing the quality of studies, performance of academic staff and work responsibility, respectively, in order to improve the image of itself now seriously damaged, and in order to contribute to the consolidation and management of all segments of our society.

This process, in addition to strict compliance with existing norms, according to the UP's, has also been associated with completing legal infrastructure in almost all areas of UP's action, in order to establish clearly defined rules, based on law and applicable to all equally.

“Puniting legal gaps has been made based on the highest standards that can be practiced in the respective areas, given the financial position of the UPP, the difficulties of operating this institution in the past, and the practice installed, often contrary to standards, in many segments of the operation of UP”, are said in this UP communique.

With the aim of Sancing the situation we are in, UP's management structures have taken a series of concrete actions to improve this situation and restore its already seriously shaken credibility. In this context, after a very long period of impasses, two competitions have been managed for selection and promotion of academic staff based on criteria which provide the recruiting, respectively, the promotion of teachers based on their results in the academic field, not on the position or social support you want from them. In addition, after a period of long and long effort, the Steering Council of The UPP has approved and implemented the new personal income regulation, with which many weaknesses have been corrected in the process of financial compensation of UPP staff”, the UPI points out in this communiqué.

Of course, all these actions and measures for improving the situation at the largest public university, according to the communique, have been conveyed with numerous internal and external difficulties that have so far been successfully exceeded.

“However, in the time of the end we are facing increased pressure, especially from state bodies outside the UPI, with various pretexts, but in most cases directly related to the interests of individuals within the UPP, often even outside this institution. Such individuals, exploiting various personal, family and clan ties, have activated all potential incidents such as the Education Inspectorate, the Labour Inspectorate, the Anti-corruption Agency, as well as the various sectors of the Kosovo Police, to put pressure on UP's bodies in order to issue specific decisions, which are largely academically”, the UPP states in the communique.

The “in the complex of such interventions, especially the exclusive is the intervention of Mr. Defry Gashi, whose UP Senate has turned down the doctorate's work due to non-fulfillment of basic standards, such as testimony to a paper published in a corresponding international magazine. This candidate, with the goal of completing the doctor's subject by ignoring the legal arrangement and procedures envisioned for such cases, has activated all possible state instances to exert pressure in various forms. As a result, in recent weeks, many members of the UP-level Medical Council have been invited to informative conversations in the police, with the aim of explaining the reasons for refusing the subject of chief educational inspector Mr. By Gashi”, points further to the UP in this communiqué.

“The influence of Chief Inspector Gashi, but also of several other candidates who have not advanced to academic degrees, is linked to numerous pressures from education inspectors and labour Inspectorate inspectors for renewed examination of such candidates' applications, even though the pre-priced deadline for examining those subjects has already passed several months”, the University of Pristina further declares.

By means of this letter, the UPP announces the general public and international embassies that the pressure described above by the bodies called for ensuring law enforcement, respectively their direct intervention on clear academic issues, not only seriously violates the autonomy of the pre-priced University with the Law on Higher Education, but seriously jeopardises its functioning and makes it impossible to maintain academic standards as our taxpayers rightly expect.

We consider the general public that for all these pressures facing UP's organs, the Kosovo prime minister will be announced. Ramush Haradinaj and Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Shyqitti Bytyqi, from whom we will ask to exercise their influence, respectively make their contribution to preserving the university's autonomy, as the law envisions”, concludes the Pristina University communique.