Kosovo's exclusion from the devastating EQAR for education, Bytyqi resigns

The former chairman of the Accreditation Agency board, Blerim Rexha, says that Kosovo's exclusion from the European Register for the Security of Quality at Higher Education (EQAR) is devastating to the image of education in Kosovo.

Rexha at Express Interview in KTV has said that now Education Minister Shyqi Bytyqi has two decisions left, asking for public forgiveness and resigning.

The ECAR ruling said that after the decision by Bytyqi to sack the State Council of Quality it was. of the director of the Kosovo Apology Agency “this agency has lost its ability to act autonomously. The AKA board was fired in late September last year.

With the current board's dismissal decision, the Agency has been left without board, without decision-makers. There are many programs for accreditation. This responsibility falls to the minister. He has decided to paralyse this agency. In the first row for higher education means going back, for ten years working on Kosovo society. We stopped for our right to quality education. For our aspirations for membership in W NESTO. Questioning the study software diplomat. It destroys the image of the agency. Cenon and undermine the image of all education institutions. Most important, it harms students ' interests. First, the minister has two last chances. It owes it public apology for the situation in which it has brought education and the second to leave the position it holds”, Rexha said.

Rexha has also said that with the dismissal of Ismet Salihu from the position of chairman of the UPI Steering Council and his replacement with the former chief of minister, Bytyqi has shown only his personal ambitions.

Rexha has also said that EPAR membership could last up to a year, but, according to him, exclusion is even worse than lack of membership. He has made it known that in this European legislature, only Kosovo and Serbia were the region members.