Marketing With Knowledge

Lately, research has been done to an update, which, it says, has only confirmed the phenomenon.

“Will suffice a research on social networks or on web marketing pages and you can find many options [of topics]”, says Free Europe Radio Besnik Boletini, researcher in “Get up”. According to him, there are groups that have done “cross-checks of subjects” and individuals “can choose what they want”.

We have found that these diploma topics are sold without problems, via emails, through phone numbers... Their costs range from 150 to 200 or 300 euros, depending on the type of the theme”, Boletini says.

References do not deny <x0ferates for diploma themes”

Radio Free Europe has researched social networks and some marketing sites and found several <x0ferta” on diploma topics made by anonymous people, which give only their electronic addresses and phone numbers.

The editorial has contacted some over the phone. They have not denied that they offer diploma themes, but they have not wanted to provide details or identify with names.

On several pages of marketing, specific bidders have written that they offer “asistence” while working on diploma themes and this “asistship” is argued as a form of lecture and editing of graduation themes and seminarical work.

Free Europe Radio has asked the Kosovo Police about the possible prosecution of these cases. But, from this institution, they have said they can't provide precise cases of prosecutions and arrests, as sales of diplomas are classified as “falsification” and it is not separate from other acts that are rated equally.

Bahtiri: The responsibility for the phenomenon is numerous

Pristina University Development and Quality Projector Elton Bahtiri acknowledges that the phenomenon of diploma trading exists and says responsibility falls to some.

Not only are the students who benefit, in a way, through a short way to get to a graduation job... but there are those we can consider to be graduation workers. The manager also has the mentors of these candidates [graditing students], because they are in charge of the candidate, to convey if you apply the requirements of a degree job, as required by the regulation of relevant studies”, Bahtiri tells Radio Free Europe.

Just a year ago, he adds, Pristina University has adopted a regulation for disciplinary measures and procedures through which students who try to graduate with purchased works are sanctioned.

The disciplinary measures, according to Bahtir, envision the temporary suspension of the candidate from further studies to complete exclusion from the university.

We have this regulation for a year now. As the first instance of submitting claims, there are relevant disciplinary commissions, at the level of academic entities. I haven't been able to get any information on the situation there. [But] there are cases...”, Bahtiri says.

Diploma as “formity”

“Arise” has organised a conference on this topic on May 24th. Speaking at this event, Professor at AAB College in Pristina Xhavit Rexhaj has said the issue of “matrapallk” with diploma work is not random in Kosovo. “It is created because there is also a demand for [results]. If the professor doesn't do his job properly, if the university removes motivation, the promotion of quality work teachers, if [individ] when going to compete for work, they tell him it takes a degree and not a degree it takes skills, normally a requirement to get that diploma, Rex5> said.

Kosovo, in various international reports, has been criticised for poor quality in education, initiated by the lower cycle and higher.

According to Besnik Boletin, the diploma trade phenomenon has been promoted precisely by, he says, “sofsification” of the graduation process at certain universities and colleges.

I assume that the professor or commission, which is along with the mentor, for the first time are familiar with the material there, during the protection of the graduation theme. This is one of the key problems, because if the professor works with the student on the subject, it's impossible to get a subject bought so easily, says Boletini.

adds that, due to conversations with some professors, an idea has emerged about fighting phenomena, which is the application of software that detects similar content and plagiarism.

Boletin says the necessary condition for students of Macbackelor levels) and '%mster) would have to be incorporal of the works that they graduate from in a joint system of universities and colleges in Kosovo. This, according to him, would create a database that would make some kind of detection of subjects so that they do not pass without any filter.

In the 2019/20 academic year, at the high educational institutions in Kosovo at the level of Babappelorão, nearly 6,000 students of them 3,870 at the University of Pristina showed the data of the Kosovo Statistics Agency.

According to them, in the same academic year, 1,657 students have graduated from the level of émisterı; 1,238 of them at the University of Pristina.