Albanian students demand change
Thousands of young people are demanding changes to Albania’s education system.
|2018.12.14
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Eight student demands
Increase the budget to 5 percent of GDP in order to allow for the halving of student fees, and the improvement of teaching and infrastructure (within the universities and dormitories);
Transparency of the budgets of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth and all Higher Education Institutions, and publication of all spending online;
Increase the total student vote in the election of candidates for deans and rectors from 10 percent to 50 percent, and have a student representative on each faculty’s academic senate;
Review academic titles, and verify that PhDs and textbooks have not been plagiarised;
Based on the Law on Higher Education’s Article 99, Paragraph 2 on Student Councils, we demand that the Management Board of Higher Education Institutions has an equal number of votes from both Members of the Academic Senate and the Higher Education Institutes, and to add a student representative to this board;
Provide all students with a student card within the academic year 2018-19;
Construct libraries with European standards and an online bookstores in the Albanian language free of charge for all students;
Evaluate teaching performance, require teachers to have their research published online, as well as lectures published online.
Fjori Sinoruka
Fjori Sinoruka has a BA in journalism and communications from the University of Tirana. She is currently doing her MA in public relations. Fjori is part of the Albanian Centre for Quality Journalism, and works as a journalist in Albania.
This story was originally written in English.