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BANJA LUKA, June 19 (FENA) - Director of the Agency for the Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance in Bosnia and Herzegovina Enver Halilović has accused the RS government of having carried out a separatist anti-Dayton act in the field of quality assurance of higher education in BiH.
In a letter to the OHR, the OSCE, the EU Delegation to BiH and the ambassadors of the members states of the Peace Implementation Council in BiH, he requested that they prevent, as he said, an antidemocratic separatism by the Government of RS in the implementation of the process of accreditation of higher education institutions and study programs in BiH.
At a press conference in Banja Luka, Halilović emphasized that the RS government, with its actions, has set out to shut down this agency.
The Government of RS has requested, Halilović explained, that the Agency at the state level does not implement the state laws on higher education, but to operate under the regulations of this BiH entity.
“In order to prevent the work of the Agency at the state level under the state law, upon which it has been founded, in September 2016, the RS Government forbid the delegation that represents the Serb people in the State Agency's Steering Committee to adopt a decision on the norms that set up minimum standards in the field of high education in BiH, explaining their move as an act against alleged transfer of competences.
The Agency at the entity level in RS, on the orders of the RS Government, adopted its own rules on accreditation, thus separating their accreditation process from a unified accreditation process. In both, legal and political terms, this represents an act of separatism,” Halilović warned.
Director of the Agency for Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions in RS Biljana Vojvodić has recently accused the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance (HEA) of Bosnia and Herzegovina for attempting to block the process of accreditation of higher education institutions from that BiH entity.
Halilović strongly condemned and dismissed these accusations as utterly false.
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