A real panic was caused by the dean of the College of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Management ‘Nikola Šubić Zrinski’ from Zagreb, Ivica Katavić, when he announced in Glasu Slavonije that there are strong indications that diplomas obtained in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will no longer be able to be nostrified in Croatia, as they do not meet the required criteria.
The Slavonians, who study more cheaply in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were primarily frightened. A media carousel ensued, only for the relevant institution, the Agency for Science and Higher Education (AZVO), to respond to a journalist’s question and confirm Katavić’s indications.
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Because, ‘in the case of the accreditation criteria for foreign higher education institutions, the credibility of the relevant accreditation body is important, that is, that it has undergone relevant international evaluation, which, unfortunately, has not been the case recently with any relevant agency for external quality assurance in higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia,’ states the AZVO’s response.
To the horror of Slavonian students in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to the delight of the dean of the Zagreb college, who is opening a relocated study in Županja this autumn. And had it not been for that business interest, it is questionable whether the state agency would have even deemed it necessary to inform the public about what is in store for Croatian students studying in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
