The Ministry of Education Deals With Scandals

This minister has accepted goods and then applied, while public university professors have received a full salary even though they have not kept all the hours ahead, while the obligation to pay the exams should not happen because it should be part of the work for which professors receive the basic salary.

This is how the report by the National Auditor Office for 2016 notes that the construction process has been forwarded to schools with long delays.

According to the report, public universities, which operate under MAST, did not complete their own questionnaire, had no development strategies except the University of Gjakova, and did not have annual work plans for 2016, and had no risk records.

“During 2016, in 17 cases management positions involving the Secretary General, department directors, division leaders and positions of various officials had been covered with the Bridgers, for specific cases of more than a year. This phenomenon is also expressed in MAST agencies and other programs. This situation stems from failing to complete judicial processes and ignoring the UD deadline. As a result, the functioning of the governing structures has not always provided effective accountability”, the report noted.

The Auditor report also reportedly has been left uncovered by internal auditing, important areas such as procurement and student centre, while no recommendations from management have been taken into account.

The audience in this report has estimated that even though the final budget has been realised to a rate of 96%, we cannot say that MAST had good budgetary performance, this is because over the year numerous needs have emerged for new budget adaptations and transfers between categories and different budgetary programmes.

The concentration of expenditures was also in the latter part of the year, where 46% of the total budget was spent in the last quarter of the year.

“One of the reasons for spending at the end of the year was buying books that were made after September. Another issue related to the realisation of the budget is misclassification of expenditures. Inventor and equipment worth 75,465 were planned/remade by Capital Investments, until goods and services had to be realised. Under the Kosovo Republic Budget Law for 2016, in November there will be no payment of advance on ten (10%) and in December more than five (5%) of contract value, and only after approval by the finance minister. We have found that for the Cline primary school project, an advance was granted in December at 108,671m (10% of the contract value). The advance approval was not received. academic staff, based on conditions and certain criteria for staff. During the auditing of academic staff salaries, in six universities, we have encountered in many cases where personal income regulations have not been implemented. This has reflected on the following issues: In four cases in UPz and in one case in the UHZ, the full rate of hours on the rate had not been maintained until compensation to professors had been made complete. The regulation before it is made, if it is not met; On three occasions in UMIB, we have found that professors are paid in advance, (for the monthly hours of December, professors compensated for the month in December, while according to the regulations on wages, compensation should be made in the following month on evidence to keep those hours; From testing university follow-up lists, we've found nine cases in UPz, four cases in the UKZ, where students' follow-up lists in the lecture are not confirmed by the authorized faculty person. Do not verify lists by authorized officials leave room for doubt in keeping hours from teachers. It should be emphasized that the UPz, after our recommendation, in the last quarter of 2016, has engaged in improving this deficiency; Of the 52 tested samples at UPz and UHZ, on two occasions in the UHZ, and on six occasions in the Uptz we have noticed that professors don't mark at all the clock of the lecture, and others only mark the beginning of the lecture's watch, since officials responsible for calculating the hours held do so without evidence; In two cases we've noticed that professors haven't completed the entire pre-hour teaching fund, and the same are compensated for full pay. On one occasion, the professor had maintained only four hours of teaching less, and the next case was six hours less instruction until they received a full salary. According to the regulation, no hours are penalised with partial salary removal. Universities under MAST have adopted their own personal income regulations, based on Pristina University regulation No.156, released at 27/04/2012, under which they envision professor compensation for every high-level student presented at the exam, at a height of 0.60m, and for every master-level student presented at the exam, at 3$. According to current guidelines in force, Bachelor-level students don't pay at all for testing, and students at the master's level for each submitted exam are paying 2.5. This means that the revenues provided by the examination do not cover the costs for the professor's compensation. In addition, keeping the exams would have to be an integral part of the work tasks for which professors receive the basic wage and eventually the honouraries”, the report says.

In cases of realisation of construction work related to the construction of educational facilities, the audience says that for the seven tested contracts, MAST had assigned contract managers who have forwarded the implementation of the works, but it had not also assigned the professional overseer body, which also conveyed capital investments and oversees specific work ahead of contract.

According to the audience, the construction process has been forwarded to schools with multi-year delays.

“From the 11 projects launched in 2009, six of them have been completed, two were in the process of technical accession, as the work continues to three. THE MAST had not applied criminal acts to companies, because according to them the circumstances of delays have been mutual, lack of budget, specific changes and neglect of companies on the other hand. In the proceedings of 17 payments related to goods and services worth 425,722, we found goods/services and bills initially accepted, while it was also later made (a commitment to vehicles, demand for purchase, and ordinance). Also in eight capital investment payments worth $526,249, the pledge was made after the fate of”, the audit report said.

According to the audience, the value of unpaid obligations at the end of 2016 was 593,760 euros. This presents part of the budgetary challenge because the ministry also had accounting obligations worth 726,530 euros. While obligations had undergone considerable reduction, accounting obligations had increased by about 11%. Increasing accounting obligations can affect the budget, which is scheduled to be spent on other projects.