The university where half the professoriate ‘has never published’

Nepotism and the isolation of war have left Kosovo’s oldest university battling poor research standards, but transparency campaigners hope this is changing

Published on
May 15, 2019
Last updated
April 14, 2023
David Matthews
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Lift me higher: a child runs past an inflatable yellow duck that was part of an anti-corruption protest in Priština
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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by anselm.... on May 15, 2019 - 8:39am
"Taulant Muka, a cardiometabolic health researcher at the University of Bern and a campaigner for academic integrity in neighbouring Albania." Does the writer of this article have a geography degree from an Albanian university?
#2 Submitted by ... on May 15, 2019 - 9:00pm
Embarrassingly, the “proportion of professors without sufficient published articles to justify their positions” also remains a serious problem in the UK, where the publications of some ‘manager-professors’ are negligible or even non-existent.

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