UP: Albanian literature and philosophy endanger extinction

Directions at the University of Pristina, such as Albanian Literature, the Albanian Gufa and the philosopher, are considered highly important areas of national identity and critical opinion, yet interest in them year-on-year is fading, risking future extinction, in the event the same trend continues.

The most endangered branch is that of Albanian Literature at Pristina University Faculty Philological “Hasan Pristina”. In this regard only six students have applied, this tiny and disturbing number.

And in Albanian, they applied 20 students, so a little more than in Albanian Literature, but low over the past years,

The dean of the Philological Faculty, Lindita Rugova, has said of the Dukagjini Portal, that this number could increase in September's “except English, German and journalism”.

The decline of students' interest in these aspects, according to her, has little to do with the programme but with the overall developments in the country and the world. It says that there is a trend in the decline in interest in studying national languages.

So I see it as a global phenomenon not interested in humanistic knowledge in general because it's the time of artificial intelligence, time of medical sciences and better pay on the job market. There is visible declines in several other UP faculties, but such is expected with these” developments, she said.

According to her <x0). The direction or the Literature programme should not go out and it doesn't make any sense even if we don't have any students, because it's the department that, along with the Albanian language, in 1960 has laid the foundation of today's UP, is part of the identity of the Kosovo Albanians, it's Kosova” itself.

One of the reasons Rugova has, according to the deanes, caused albanology to weaken is a decision by the Ministry of Education in 2012/2013 to remove the master of teaching Albanian and Albanian literature from the Philological Faculty.

The Ministry of Education in 2012/2013 has approved a decision with which he removed the master of Albanian language teaching and the master of Albanian literature from Philologically has carried them (without our will and after much of the debate we've made in the Senate and August) at the Education Facules during the time of past management. This has indirectly affected the weakening of Albanology in Philological, although it's about master studies because most candidates who are enrolled in a BA study program logically want to continue the master of teaching where they are, without changing faculty”, she said.

“In the new circumstances created, we would have to develop a master's programme in common with the Faculty of Education, the master of Language Teaching and Albanian Literature, with a joint degree of a programme worked very carefully on both sides. This turns interest into both schools for this field, because it doesn't create a separation from BA to MA from one faculty to another, but it also affects improving the quality of teaching in general in this area of study. It would be a asset program for both schools because we're actually a university, a home. Tirana, unlike us, has preserved the professional master of Albanian teaching at Philology”, it has followed.

Another reason for the decline in the number of applicants in the Rugova Philological branches is the decline of nightiness and demographic strippers. She did in 2013 in English and German directions about seven or eight candidates fought for one country, but now competition is two for one country.

She stressed that accrediting many Albanian and Albanian Language and Literature programmes has also contributed to a decline in interest at the Philological Faculty in Pristina.

Of course, BA programmes are national programmes and should never be violated their existence, because other languages can be studied anywhere, but Albanian requires local habitats”, she said.

Only 18 applications in philosophy

In the department of philosophy, there were also few interested ones. Only 18 students have applied in that direction, according to the head of the cathedral at the same time as Professor of Philosophy Valon Lesi, are disturbing.

Leci referred to several reasons for the Dukagnani Portal, which he feels has led to a small number of those interested in study of philosophy. The decline of nightiness, migration, and disrepute between education and the job market are reasons for declining interest in studying philosophy.

I think there are several reasons why this problem is due, such as the decline of nightiness or mass migration that have affected population decline, including the decline of the number of students at the pre-university level, but also of students. Another reason for the decline in the number of students generally is the deep disrepute between education and the labour market, which has led many graduates to fail to enter the job market in their professions. This, of course, is also the inability of extreme powers in Kosovo to create relevant policies for education and employment”, he said.

He criticised past governments and the current for ignoring the importance of directions that, according to him, amounted to society and the state.

For me, it's disturbing how governments, including the current, and especially the current cause of public references they make, ignore the importance of certain social and state approaches, in terms of normal functioning. Like. In pre-university school programs, they have reduced philosophy clocks to the maximum, and they have joined logic.

Rather, they have created such standards that philosophy and ethics scholars cannot even give the Citizen Educate. So they damage the field, which may not give you a technical profession, but it makes people think with their heads critically and not dogmaticly. And yet these mistakes are not eliminated!”, he said.

Leci also considers the small number of interested in the Albanian Literature branch at the Philological Faculty to be disturbing, saying that the field allows for study of the identity of our society.

I have seen in the media how in literature this deadline only 6 candidates have applied. So, in the field that enables us to study one of the identifying elements of this society, we have so few potential and potentially declining students, until the close of”, he said.

The philosophy professor said that there is a tendency in Kosovo to study the directions Europe's market absorbs, which according to him will be a major problem for Kosovo.

So, you see a tendency to study in commercial directions, and especially in such directions that absorbs the European market. Consequently, the effort is to do research to find work outside Kosovo. This will be an additional and major problem for Kosovo in the near future”, he said.

The Kosovo government, according to him, should offer more scholarships for areas endangered by the lack of interested ones, otherwise direction that is not closely linked to the labour market risks closure.

“I find it very important that the Government of Kosovo create special educational policies for areas and programmes of strategic importance to the individual, society and state, but that as such are not commercial. The government should offer more study scholarships for these areas, promote the value of research and the importance of these areas, enable exchange of experiences at credit universities and so on.

Otherwise, departments and programmes that are not directly and closely related to the labour market will be at risk for closure. And, closing these programmes, one way or another, would seriously harm each of us and all of us!”, he said.

Even the expert on education issues, Silver Osmani, thinks that such directions as Albanian Literature, Albanian, and philosophy are at risk of closing if they continue with this trend of uninterest.

According to him, directions in question offer limited access to the job market, so too little interest.

“Arsyet thinks there are many, but first of all they connect to job market demands. These directions offer very limited career advancement opportunities and are being viewed by young people as old - fashioned. No doubt the global trend has made it its own, young people are heading in the direction of ICT, medicine, foreign languages and other directions that are providing better employment opportunities”, he said.

According to him, knowledge of Albanian language, traditions and culture is very important. Much the same can be said of the guidance of philosophy. Unfortunately, young people do not show sufficient interest in these aspects”.

The Ministry of Education, according to Osmani, should offer scholarships for students of these directions and also create more meritocracy in promoting academic staff.

The Ministry of Education can provide scholarships for students in these directions and provide equal opportunities to promote all of them. It should not be forgotten that this youth decomposition has also resulted from the clientalism and nepotism of public universities, especially in the case of academic staff promotion. So even those little interested ones gave up these directions when they find that they are very unlikely to have academic careers”, he said.

As to the risk of eliminating the Albanian Literature branch, where only 6 students applied, Professor Ag Apolloni, has asked Minister of Education Arberie Nagavci to react and return this department as he said the competencies other faculties have taken it.