updated Fri. September 22, 2023
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Central Banking
March 22, 2018
Fehmi Mehmeti has been confirmed as governor of Kosovo's central bank after a narrow vote in his favour by the country's parliament, after six months in the post on an interim basis. Mehmeti joined the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo as deputy governor for financial supervision in September 2013.
Balkan Insight
March 20, 2018
For Deme Hoti, a professor of education at the University of Pristina, no question exists that the so-called “parallel institutions” of learning from the 1990s were indeed “authentic institutions of national education.” At the time, with pressure mounting on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, teachers had no choice butÃâà...
Independent Balkan News Agency
March 7, 2018
... said that this decision had nothing to do with party affiliations, but because of the complaints that existed for that board. Kosovo's exclusion from EQAR has also sparked reactions and protests by a group of students of the University of Pristina, who have requested for politics not to intervene in education.
The Guardian
February 19, 2018
Last year, Pristina's Era Istrefi courted controversy by filming a video in a Serbian Orthodox Church located on the University of Pristina campus, which was built in the 1990s when Pristina was under a system that privileged Serbs to the detriment of Albanians. The video of a scantily clad Istrefi gyrating inÃâà...
International Monetary Fund
February 15, 2018
I also had the opportunity to visit the city of Prizren to experience some of Kosovo's impressive cultural heritage, and met with students at the University of Pristina to hear about their own challenges and aspirations for the future. “Kosovo has been a successful example of a post-conflict country able toÃâà...
Balkan Insight
December 14, 2017
The building of the Church of Christ the Saviour started under Milosevic's rule in 1995, near the University of Pristina, but construction was interrupted by the war so it remains unfinished. The Serbian Orthodox Church has staged protests after the building was vandalised, while local Kosovo Albanians haveÃâà...
NIU Today
December 6, 2017
For Ameti, those dreams took him from his homeland to Yugoslavia, where he earned his bachelor's (1985) and master's (1989) degrees at the University of Pristina, and later to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Tuzla in 2008. But it was in Macedonia whereÃâà...
Seton Hall University News & Events
November 27, 2017
Ambassador Sahatqija holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pristina in Kosovo. In addition to that she also completed the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Dartmouth College in the United States receiving a GraduateÃâà...
Balkan Insight
November 13, 2017
The Kosovo Appeals Court has granted the Serbian Orthodox Church rights to the land on which stands the controversial Sveti Spas (Christ the Saviour) church, which was once part of the University of Pristina campus, BIRN learned on Monday. The unfinished church has been a source of controversyÃâà...
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
August 15, 2017
Meanwhile, the university sector, and in particular the University of Pristina (UP), is in the spotlight for corruption allegations involving unfair promotions, prompting demands from the civil society for the Ministry of Education to address the situation. As well as being affected by corruption, political collusionÃâà...
B92
December 31, 1999
He graduated and began his MA in Albanian language at the University of Pristina. He was one of the founders of the Cultural Center in Podujevo in 1990. Since 1992, he worked as a teacher at Podujevo Elementary School, and two years later began his journalistic career in the newspaper "Rilindja,"Ãâà...
