The Basic Court in Prishtina has imposed a security measure on a parcel of more than 68 ares in the Technical Faculties area, which is listed as municipal property in the documentation of the University of Prishtina.

The decision, issued on August 24 following a request by the Basic Prosecution Office, was welcomed by the University of Prishtina, which considers it a step toward protecting university property.

“Since the beginning of his mandate, Rector Arben Hajrullahu has been determined to protect university property, taking all necessary measures to prevent any attempt to transfer ownership of it to the detriment of the public interest,” the University of Prishtina said in a statement.

Fitore Pacolli, acting minister of the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, also reacted to the court’s decision.

She said the security measure concerns an area of more than 68 ares in the Technical Faculties area, which, according to her, had been subject to attempts to transfer ownership.

“With this decision, the public property of the University of Prishtina is being protected from the risk of being transferred,” Pacolli wrote on Facebook.

According to her, the issue was addressed by the Committee for Environment, Food, Agriculture, Spatial Planning and Development, which she led as chair, with the support of other members of parliament.

“The contribution of every member of parliament was highly valuable in addressing this issue, especially the work and commitment of former MP Milazim Salijaj, with whom we requested that the claims and suspicions related to this property be investigated and addressed by the competent institutions,” she said.

Pacolli described the imposition of the security measure as an important development for the preservation of public property.

“I welcome this development and will continue to work to ensure that public properties are protected by law and through institutional responsibility,” she wrote.

The University of Prishtina expressed gratitude for the work of the former Parliamentary Committee and for the fact that the case was raised and addressed institutionally.

The University of Prishtina particularly thanked former MP Fitore Pacolli and Milazim Salijaj for their involvement in reviewing the issue and for their contribution to identifying problems that required investigation by the competent institutions.

“The University also expresses special gratitude to the prosecutorial system of the Republic of Kosovo, investigative institutions and all officials who, within the scope of their legal responsibilities, have contributed to addressing this case,” the University of Prishtina said in its statement.

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On June 29, the University of Prishtina will begin accepting applications for new students at the bachelor’s level. As the largest public higher education institution in Kosovo, it will offer more than five thousand study places across dozens of academic programs. According to university officials, this year’s offer has been designed in line with labor market demands and the latest quality standards in higher education.

“At this level of study, we will admit 5,663 students in a broad offer of various programs across all three levels. UP offers 146 programs from all fields, from all profiles; these are all revised and reaccredited programs based on the new standards of the Accreditation Agency, as well as on labor market analysis. Some of them are going this year for accreditation and other programs for reaccreditation, according to the findings we have had from several analyses, and in this way the needs of young people according to their various affinities are met, as well as the needs of the labor market in Kosovo,” said Majlinda Gjelaj, Vice Rector for Institutional Development, Quality and Student Affairs.

A new feature this year is the allocation of four percent of study places for certain categories of applicants from outside Kosovo. These quotas include the Albanian diaspora, the Arbëresh of Italy, the Arbnesh of Zadar, and Albanians of Kosovo origin living abroad.

“Within these programs, in the call we will open, it is envisaged that some special quotas will also be allocated for students, which was not the practice in the past, but for the first time we have allocated 4 percent of the total number of students we admit, with 1 percent set aside for the Arbëresh of Italy and those of Zadar, for Albanians of Kosovo origin living in Albania, and for our diaspora wherever they live around the world, 2 percent for them. Specifically, in numbers, 112 candidates will be admitted from the diaspora in different programs, 62 of them will be from Turkey, 64 from the Arbëresh of Zadar and Italy,” said Majlinda Gjelaj, Vice Rector for Institutional Development, Quality and Student Affairs.

Meanwhile, the university aims to enroll around 2,600 students at the Master’s level. Officials say that in some programs quotas have been reduced in order to improve the quality of teaching, practical work and scientific research.

“In Master’s programs we will enroll somewhere around 2,600 students. All programs have also been revised and reaccredited. We have requested smaller quotas at the Master’s level because of the increase in the quality of learning and teaching, in smaller groups for practical work and scientific research and better management, but also because of the quality standard under which the ratio between the number of professors and students has been significantly reduced, as our request and also according to European standards for quality in higher education. Now, in general, we have a very satisfactory ratio that compares with all quality universities in the world, 1 to 23; that means that in the past one professor was burdened with 100 students, which was an extraordinary number for one professor to carry while still being able to maintain quality in teaching, whereas now this quota has changed and the ratio is 1 to 23,” said Majlinda Gjelaj, Vice Rector for Institutional Development, Quality and Student Affairs.

The University of Prishtina will continue to offer tuition-free studies for students, while those who achieve high academic results will be supported through scholarship schemes.

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