Minority students ignore Pristina University

And for master level, of 269 countries, only 27 people have recorded this level.

The data has been presented to Esat Kelmendi, secretary of the Pristina University Rectorate. He said students from non-US communities have shown greater interest in studying medicine and education, where exams are held in respective languages -- the Serbian, Bosnian and Turkish.

The largest interest in non-company communities this year, but even the early years, has been mainly in the Education Faculty, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine, then these technical sciences come, that is, architecture, Computer Engineering, Jurydical, Economics and beyond”, Kelmendi said.

Subtitles: RAE even middle schooling and primary schooling are performed in Albanian. While the Bosniak and Turkish communities do so in their native language. So the test is also compiled in their native language”, he stressed.

In order to create facilities for enrolling studies, the quota for accepting students from minority ranks, he underlined, is lower compared to the majority community.

Of course, these categories, with reserved quotas, have an ease in relation to that majority, because the transparency threshold is not 40 percent, but they have 30 percent, and they compete among themselves for the reserved” seats, Kelmendi said.

Given that the largest number of countries reserved for minority communities remain incomplete, in recent years the phenomenon of attempts by students of the Albanian community to occupy empty locations was also marked. But according to Secretary Kelmendi, this year this problem has been averted.

No problem, no attempt. All have been verified by representatives of the non-US community, pre-tested candidates who have applied or applied to the relevant community and then made the census. The admission meant parole, until the verification response” was returned, Kelmendi said.

Dukagjin Pupovci, head of the Kosovo Centre for Education, estimates there are several reasons why minority students are not interested in studying at Pristina University. According to him, one of the main reasons is that they do not speak Albanian.

I think that in many cases the language of the study may be a problem, since a number of students in particular are from the Bosnian community who do not speak Albanian to the proper extent to be able to study in that language, and there are also opportunities that are given to members of some communities to study in other countries in their native language. Here in the first place, I mean the Turkish community, where opportunities to study in Turkey are extremely good”, Pupovci told REL.

However, students from the Serb community, according to him, usually choose to study at the University of North Mitrovica.

“First in Kosovo exists the possibility of being studied in the Serbian language, the University of Northern Mitrovica exists, where I am assuming that the majority of the Serb community retire. We have these political reasons there as well, because I'm assuming that members of the community are largely reluctant to study at an institution that is under the authority of the Republic of Kosovo, so they also become more instructed to the University of North Mitrovica”, Pupovci stressed.

The representation of non-US communities in all Kosovo institutions is guaranteed to those with the Constitution, laws and other acts in force.