Press statement | 18.05.2022

Moving to “Bologna” way of studying should be student-friendly

On 21 February 2022, IHROBiH received a complaint from T.R. of Sarajevo, indicating Banja Luka School of Philosophy as the respondent party. The complainant stated that as a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree she passed all her examinations under the “pre-Bologna” programme and the only thing left was to defend her master’s thesis, which was turned in timely. Her thesis entered the official procedure in early 2020, the commission was formed, and everything that needed to be done to have the thesis defended within the statutory deadline had been done. The mentor assigned to the complainant informed her in late 2020 that the deadline for defending master’s theses under the old programme had passed, which meant she had to enrol for the master degree programme again and pay all expenses. Following the investigation procedure, IHROBiH sent a recommendation (P-123/22) to the Commission for Combatting Negative Phenomena in Higher Education in the Republika Srpska of the Ministry for Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society, instructing it to take measures falling within its competence to regulate and protect university students’ rights to adequate information, mentorship and acquisition of professional titles in second cycle studies at Banja Luka University in the most precise and adequate manner, and to take measures to eliminate the irregularities found.

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