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Rigels Xhemollari, head of the "Civic Attitude" organization, has spoken about the alarming state of education in Albania and the fall of the University of Tirana to the bottom of the "QS University Rankings".
Xhemollari said that the rector Artan Hoxha lied about the classification and that the Albanian universities have been at their bottom for years and not only during the last year.
He stated that the UT budget for scientific research is zero, while there are very high expenses for infrastructure, for example 300 thousand euros for curtains.
"It was thrown into a pot with 688 universities and came 11th from the bottom. The University of Tirana came out at the bottom.
It is a personal failure of the head of the university who had internationalism as a platform. It is a lie, manipulation and attempt to hide this survey. We spread it to the media. It is a failure of the education strategy. Rama told us that internationalization will be our priority. How are universities ranked?
Academic reputation is measured first. UT is run by leaders who have no scientific publications, no one knows them in their fields. Criminal gangs are also involved in university elections. Mr. Hoxha was in front of Ms. Hafizi, who has dozens of scientific publications. If we have UT taken hostage, it is a person who once becomes rector himself and once chooses someone else.
If we are going to talk about independence, see the last meeting of the rectors' conference, where the prime minister had a microphone and the rectors did not. This is the worst display of university autonomy.
UT has zero research budget for the last three years. 350 thousand euros are bought for curtains, 650 thousand euros for paints... For scientific research, zero lek", said Xhemollari for "The Unexposed".
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