This is ECAR Director: Kosovo disfellowshipped to isolate students

Director ECAR, Colin Tuck, has said that following Kosovo's expulsion from the organisation he heads, the application procedures at international Universities will be extremely complicated for Kosovo students.

“It is certain that the process of applying Kosovo students to international universities will already be longer and more difficult due to additional procedures that European universities will make”, the director of the Iseder has said of Insideer EQAR, Colin Tuck.

Initially Kosovo must wait even 90 days or 3 months to have the right to start re-registering procedures in ECAR, due to rules. Such a thing for the Kosovo Agency for Accreditation may be even more difficult, as it is disfellowshipped because of political interference in this Agency.

Director ECAR, Colin Tuck said greater problems will have students who will graduate to Universities that will credit the new composition of the Kosovo Agency for Accreditation, whose new board has been appointed by the Government and sent to the Kosovo Assembly for voting.

“The exclusion of the AKA does not necessarily mean that University diplomas in Kosovo will no longer be recognised, but recognition may be more difficult for those diplomas to be issued by universities that will be accredited following the expulsion of the AKA from ECAR”, Tuck said.

For the manner of selecting the new Kosovo Agency for Accreditation from Ramush Haradinaj's Government, the task manager of the agency has also voiced concerns. On November 18th, Bekim Samadraxha, who took office after the dismissal of Haradinaj to the Board and the director, had sent letter to Colin Tuck, expressing concerns about “the mode of appointments after there was a lack of transparency, which the education minister has not given to the AKA”.

“Sic is highlighted in our decision, The AAK has been excluded since the 25/9/2017 date, since we consider that with the Board's dismissal, the same day the AKA's ability to act independently” was lost, says Tuck.

Tuck, however, gives good news to Kosovo students who have diplomas from the university accredited by the Prosecution Board.

The AKA record before that date (before being expelled from ECAR v.j) has not been revoked. Therefore, they consider that the AkA's accreditations that were made as long as it was in the Registra were made in accordance with European standards (ESG), but I must repeat that this will not apply to universities that will be accredited after the expulsion of the AKA”, Tuck said.