Young public schools change for private and departure from BiH

In public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the number of students enrolled in recent years has fallen. The reason is many - students go abroad, the labor market is not adapted to enrollment policies, and private faculties are getting more and more.

At the University of Sarajevo, about 60 percent of places for enrollment were filled this year. According to the rectors, the reasons for the drop in the number of enrolled students - can not be influenced by the academic community.

"The decline in both the public and private sector when the universities are in question is evident, and another factor is expected to affect it for the next two years - the transition from an eight-year to nine-year education has stopped us one generation completely," said Rifat Škrijelj.

The same problem in front of the academic community in Mostar. However, Professor Jemal Bijedic University in Mostar offers a different explanation for this phenomenon.

"The problem is deeper in nature, because the political situation is worse every day, young people are actually totally demotivated by the same degree they will receive if they take into account that their colleagues or, possibly, many poor students have already been hired by certain parties" , said Seid Masnica, Dzemal Bijedic University in Mostar.

With the problem of a reduced number of enrolled students, only public universities in Sarajevo and Mostar are not confronted. The same problem is faced by public universities in RS and Tuzla, and as the universities say, the solution should be to create a strategy that will increase the number of enrolled students.

At the public university in Tuzla, the number of enrolled students has almost halved. Competition, poor quality of teaching and politics - are cited as the main reasons for this problem.

"When we opened countless private faculties and universities which in my opinion are very bad, but also state universities are not much better and as a general result young people have decided to go outside of this country, not only because of education, but also because of employment "said Sabid Zekan, professor at the University of Tuzla.

In Banja Luka, students are increasingly choosing public universities - hopes for a better future are not found here.

"The first reason is the lack of hope, they do not see the future here and when they finish high school they do not come here to our universities that already exist but go outside," said Miodrag Zivanovic, a professor at the University of Banja Luka.

Opportunities for studying outside the state are increasingly available, private faculties are more numerous, and students at public universities in BiH are getting smaller.

• 5 Oct, 2017
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