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Kosovo Law Centre to begin teaching new curriculum next Monday
PRISTINA 17 October 2000
PRISTINA, 17 October 2000 - On Friday 13 October, law professors and representatives of the Kosovo Law Centre (KLC) agreed to start the 1st and 2nd academic year for law students in accordance with a reformed curriculum. On Monday 23 October, students, senior academic teaching staff and international experts will celebrate this event with a ceremony at the law faculty.
In its early stage of the mission, the OSCE's Rule of Law Department identified the need to assist the local faculty's modernization after a decade of absence from the campus and education in parallel structures. During winter 1999/2000, facts were assessed and a Multilateral Action Plan (MAP) was drafted in late spring 2000. The MAP provides a framework for the co-ordination of domestic and international efforts to support legal education at the Law Faculty. The curriculum development and donors' input in this regard were defined in the first phase of the reform targets. In summer, the Kosovo Law Centre's Legal Education Section started negotiations on the implementation of a curriculum reform with representatives of Pristina University Law Faculty. This was considered as an urgent task taking into account some inadequacies of the current curriculum, as well as the shortcomings of the existing model of legal education at the Law Faculty. In September, the proposed model of the new curriculum was presented to an extended group of Law Faculty members at the Scientific Council. The Council understood the actual and urgent need to set up the curricula of the 1st and 2nd academic year, which were already been delayed.
In the very end of the project stands a reform, which opens the way for a proper legal education in accordance with European standards.
For further information contact Press and Public Information, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, tel.: +381 38 500 162 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Additional information on website: www.osce.org/kosovo
In its early stage of the mission, the OSCE's Rule of Law Department identified the need to assist the local faculty's modernization after a decade of absence from the campus and education in parallel structures. During winter 1999/2000, facts were assessed and a Multilateral Action Plan (MAP) was drafted in late spring 2000. The MAP provides a framework for the co-ordination of domestic and international efforts to support legal education at the Law Faculty. The curriculum development and donors' input in this regard were defined in the first phase of the reform targets. In summer, the Kosovo Law Centre's Legal Education Section started negotiations on the implementation of a curriculum reform with representatives of Pristina University Law Faculty. This was considered as an urgent task taking into account some inadequacies of the current curriculum, as well as the shortcomings of the existing model of legal education at the Law Faculty. In September, the proposed model of the new curriculum was presented to an extended group of Law Faculty members at the Scientific Council. The Council understood the actual and urgent need to set up the curricula of the 1st and 2nd academic year, which were already been delayed.
In the very end of the project stands a reform, which opens the way for a proper legal education in accordance with European standards.
For further information contact Press and Public Information, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, tel.: +381 38 500 162 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Additional information on website: www.osce.org/kosovo