Reja letter open Haradinaj: You fired us for campaign time, but don't insult us.

Rexha, in this letter, criticising Prime Minister Haradinaj for failing to visit this institution, has ironically informed it of “the serious irregularities produced over the two years that I am running the” Agency.

Read thoroughly Raja's Facebook response:

Open letter to prime minister for dismissal of Kosovo Agency for Accreditation

Dear Prime Minister,

I was surprised yesterday by the news, from the media, for your request for the dismissal of all members of the State Council of Quality (Bord) of the Kosovo Agency for Acronym with the reasoning “of serious irregularities”, “the objective of public discussion” and have immediately sought recruit “with proper expertise in higher education, with high, ethical and professional credentials!

Since you didn't take the time to visit us or even invite us to an information meeting for the situation and your vision of higher education, let me inform you of the “serious irregularities “produced over the two years that I'm running the Agency:

1. It has been reduced from 486 in 2015 to 346 programmes in 2017 as a result of the failure to meet minimum quality requirements under the legal framework in force,
2. Over 140 research programmes for lack of academic staff have been suspended,
3. Eight private institutions of higher education have been closed due to the failure of the minimum quality criteria defined under the legal framework in force;
4. At the latest meeting of the Board, held on September 22, 2017, we decided to also withdraw accreditment for some programs that tried to cheat the Agency with professors who are not in Kosovo,
5. We stopped the work of over 60 professors from the region (Macedonia, Albania, and other countries) only for letters to our institutions of higher education. These 60 “professors” have offered false statements to the Agency for purposes of accreditation, even some of them were not even aware that their name was used by educational institutions in Kosovo, and some have never been in Kosovo,
6. We stopped the work of all professors in Kosovo with two and more jobs full-time,
7. We put the limit on the number of registered students for the first time, in accordance with the infrastructure that education institutions have available,
8. We made public the list of all the professors (weapons) programs of studies,
9. We turned the damaged image of the Agency into the national and international arena, and
10. We have received confirmation of the good work both from international friends and from the European Commission, as expressed in the Kosovo Progress Report for 2016, because we certainly share the same opinion and principles regarding implementing legitimacy and ensuring quality in higher education.

There's a lot more “

Regarding the process of accreditation that has been made “the objective of public discussion” let me inform you that this is the basic principle of European organisations ENQA and ECAR of quality security in higher education, members of which is the Kosovo Agency for Accreditment. High education affects everyone, not only students and professors, but also parents, economics, and the entire society. So we evolved all the acters, whenever we could, in “public execution”. Higher education is a public matter! The more we increased transparency in the decision taking and established dialogue with each institution of higher education.

The until now members of the Board are highly respected people in their community, they have high academic, professional and ethical credentials. Some of them know your councilors personally, and some would have had enough to ask Google!

Honored Prime Minister, I understand that our recent actions, with the aim of increasing quality in higher education in Kosovo (Reviewing Guides and Standards of the Agency), increased transparency of higher education (the Project for Digitalisation of the Accreditation Process), drafting standards for monitoring etc. All of this backed up by international donors is very advanced for the context in which we live, and some see it as a barrier to the continuation of their business activities. Your decision, without any preliminary analysis of our work and the current situation in higher education, is a poor message for Kosovo and the independence of independent institutions in Kosovo!

Honored Prime Minister, I'm a nurse that one minister has appointed us and another can call us “c. But offending us for lack of privacy and professionalism is an insult and humility that you do not only our schooling at European and world universities but also the institutions of the state of Kosovo! It's insulting and humble even for the two international members who spent almost a life in higher education and the tops of science in the United States and Germany!

All in the end, I wish my offspring would be more competent, more professional, more transparent and bold in the process of improving the quality of higher education, which Kosovo needs so much, now!