One month before the universities opened their doors for the new academic year, Prime Minister Edi Rama convened the new Accreditation Board of the Quality Assurance Agency in Higher Education. 

It will be headed by Shqiponja Telhaj, an Albanian, but who has been living and working away from her roots for years. From a member of the advisory group of the Ministry of Education in England, she will sign for decisions important for the development of higher education in Albania. 

In addition to Telhaj, as provided by law, there are five foreign members and five Albanians, all with the title of associate professors, to breathe new life into Rama's idea of ​​taking higher education to the next level. 

The beginning of the first, more introductory meeting was opened by the Prime Minister, who introduced the members to the work done by their predecessors from 2015 until today. 

"We had 8 times more universities than Great Britain per capita. We managed to have 1432 different curricula as if we had and still have the opportunities for us to prepare the girls and boys of this country for 1432 professions and sub-professions. Another record was that of 50 study programs in our universities where the average grade of the enrollees was 5.5. Some of these were programs produced by future teachers and professors, but also board directors of various natures," said Rama. 

Recognizing the achievements so far, the Prime Minister openly told them what he wants to do through them, how to keep young people in place by offering them study opportunities at the best international universities. 

"The biggest challenge for us as a government is how we can give girls and boys who study here in high school and end up with great results, an alternative choice with the choice to go abroad. Absolutely, we can not and have no reason to think that we should stop young people from going to the most prestigious universities, but the fact that among them are full of those leaving for foreign universities, not necessarily the most prestigious ones in many cases, because that here the alternative is far from being attractive ", underlined Rama, quickly fading the pride for what he said that his government did in two mandates for higher education.