What will be the consequences of Kosovo's expulsion from the European Educational Register?

Due to the standard of institutional independence, the Kosovo Agency for Accreditation today was excluded from the European Register for Security of Quality in Higher Education.

This sparked numerous reactions, as the cause of such a decision was the move of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who had dismissed the board of this Agency.

In a pronomation for Periscope, former head of the Agency for Accreditation Board, Blerim Rexha, who is currently a university propheson, has cited a range of consequences Kosovo will have from this decision.

1. The loss of credibility of research programs to ensure the quality required by the labour market,
2. Almost irreparable damage to the image of the Agency and the higher education sector in Kosovo and abroad,
3. The decision returns to the Accreditation Agency for 10 years, work and commitment to fulfilling the obligations for membership in ECAR,
4. The high education aspirations in Kosovo for integration into the European space of higher education hinders (stops)
5. Banning (stops) the Kosovo membership process in Bologna,
6. It hinders and complicates the process of referring to the National Qualification Framework with the European Framework of Qualifications, and therefore obstacles to the mobileity of the labour force in general from Kosovo to Europe,
7. Loss of the importance of the accrediting and AKA process as Kosovo's main education-quality regulator,
8. Destruction of the Agency (not the interest and departure of staff),
9. The risk that minimum quality security criteria not be met by the IALs due to the weakening of the AKA and political interference
10. The break-up of the higher education system, and the loss of control in terms of opening new programmes, lack of academic staff for research programmes, enrollment outside student deadlines, etc.

He said that after Haradinaj's decision, the Agency has been no longer able to be autonomous and take responsibility for its actions.

The exception “Arsyet has well clarified the EQAR Register Council at 5 of the 4-page decision of February 27th 2018, “following the dismissal of all members of the AKA Board, the Agency is no longer able to be autonomous and take responsibilities for its actions, as required by standard and guide for securing EU quality<62>, he added.

For Periscope, he has also spoken of the possibility of returning the AKA to the European Register on High Education Security.

With this STAT leadership, he called it an impossible mission.

And with this leadership of the Ministry of Education, this looks more like “Mission Impossible”! ”, Rex for Periscope.

As the ECAR Committee announced today, they have contacted the U.S. minister on October 6th. to get additional information about the decision made. Minister Bytyqi himself had explained that the decision to sack the AKA board was made based on request by Prime Minister Haradinaj.

The minister further could not even explain how the new members of the board were elected in question, as Periscope follows.

The standard which Ramush Haradinaj has broken says: “Agencys must be independent and act autonomously. They must have full responsibility for their actions and for the results of these operations without the intervention of third parties. ”/Periscopi