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Realnosti u provođenju reforme visokog obrazovanja na Farmaceutskom fakultetu
Reality of Implementing the Higher Education Reform at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University Of Sarajevo

Author(s): Elvira Kovač-Bešović
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: pharmacy; reform; teaching; financy; science

Summary/Abstract: Even this year, the Fifth Conference on the Higher Education Reform is dedicated to trucking and analysing the implementation of transformation and improvement of one of the most responsible parts of human existing- the education, in particular the higher education through to Bologna regulations. Having accepted the core principles and objectives through which one recognizes the efforts by the European universities to implement reforms within higher education, the University of Sarajevo, with all its faculties as organizational units, has some task. The faculty of Pharmacy, harmonizing its teaching and scientific activities since of 2009/2010 school year when the first generation of students was enrolled under the New Curriculum. The reality of the reform of higher education at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Sarajevo is reflects in the fact that the reform was possible gradual first the first year of study, then second, then third and the following year and of the five-year study. The study of pharmacy, and other studies of the academic council of medical sciences group, is being treated through the single five-year study as it was before the reform, which is consistent with the nature of the study, appearing as an exemption for all health studies, and upon graduation one gets the MA degree in Pharmacy. A transitional period of one year that is 60 academic credits is needed for further education, and then a three-year doctoral study. This would bridge the problem imposed by the title Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and now if it has not been is not provide by law, in the same way it can be conceived and thus be easier to solve the dilemma of cyclic studies in the academic council of medical faculties group, and thus with the pharmacy respectively. The reality of the implementing reform of higher education at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo is also reflecting in the fact that for this activity Faculty has never received the event the slightest financially support, and teaching process is taking place event through the implementation of a new curriculum for student who began their studies in accordance it, and there is also implementation of teaching process with the Old Curriculum for students who made their enrollment when the old curriculum was in power as stipulated by the Law.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 131-135
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bosnian