A member of the Main Board of the Young Democrats, Jelena Nikčević, said that in addition to numerous "brilliant" ideas coming from the Rectorate, the intention to shut down three majors - International Relations, Journalism and European Studies, by which the faculty is recognizable and which essentially define the Faculty of Political Sciences, inevitably leads to the thought that the collapse of education is his main competence.
Nikčević said that the polemics about the reorganization of the study programs of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Podgorica have not subsided in recent days, "but that, considering the seriousness of the problems at their center, should not be surprising."
"As a former student of this faculty, I could not remain immune to all the events, because I have extremely beautiful memories of it, which were born and created during my four-year studies.In addition to numerous "brilliant" ideas coming from the Rectorate, the intention to shut down three majors - International Relations, Journalism and European Studies, by which the faculty is recognizable and which essentially define the Faculty of Political Sciences, inevitably leads to the thought that the collapse of education is its main competence. "Reforms aimed at improving the quality of higher education are desirable, but reforms that are not based on sufficiently transparent, comprehensive, neutral and objective analyzes are unacceptable," said Nikčević.
Nikčević said that considering the way education policy is conducted in Montenegro, it is necessary to ask a number of questions beforehand:
"Who are the experts who carried out the analysis, how was it carried out, is there an alternative or is the only solution the closure of the majors, were other faculties of political science from the region consulted? Is it acceptable for one of the actors of the reform to declare that for political science is not a science?! Was it possible to approach alternative forms of rationalization or did the spears have to be broken on one young university unit, whose students, at the same time, for the Rectorate and Management of FPN as if they did not exist? This observation is also confirmed by the fact that FPN students are not part of the dialogue, but the solution is, simply put, imposed on them," says Nikčević.
She added that this is an opportunity to open another, essential problem - the employment of graduates of the Faculty of Political Sciences, "which is being crippled by these so-called reforms."
"The large number of unemployed university graduates who graduated from the aforementioned faculty are not the fault of its students, but the state because of its bad and unplanned enrollment policy, as well as because it does not encourage employers to absorb that staff. People, as the most important resource, must always come first place, because it is they who will encourage public administration reforms and other institutional reforms, which are no less important than technological innovations, and FPN students must be their key bearers. The source of excess staff is not only produced by the state faculty. Therefore, it is necessary to act evenly to all educational institutions that produce that staff. Otherwise, it would be a matter of redistribution from state to private, which would only favor the particular interests of private institutions. Maybe that's the "catch"?! Instead of answering all the questions that are was heard in the public and to the very justified conclusion that the baseless and now famous reorganization is only the culmination of several years of collapse and the introduction to the gradual shutdown of the Faculty of Political Sciences, the Rector tried in an interview with a daily newspaper to anesthetize the public with empty phrases in connection with his attempt of termination. Finally, my dear colleagues, let us have a happy tenth anniversary of the faculty. Let's celebrate it in a striking way, because who knows if we will see the eleventh," concluded Nikčević.
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