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A CAREER BRIDGE FROM EUROPE TO FUTURE
For Faculty Students

18.07.2011  -  About make-up 3 exams
07.07.2011  -  Instead of Prof. Recai Aydin the  
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06.07.2011  -   Support Course Program and
05.06.2011  -   2011-2012 Education Y
For Master Program Students

02.06.2011  - Master programs begin
For Preparatory Program Students

02.06.2011 -  Proficiency exam
14.06.2011 -  Sightseeing tour to Istanbul
06.07.2011 -  Proficiency Exam Results
For Public Body

02.06.2011 -  International Symposium
02.06.2011 -  Macedonian Religious High School
                         students.
01.06.2011 -  Scholarship Exams had been done
From Rector
 
 
 
I vividly recollect the first days of Anatolian Universities, at which there were initial complaints about the insufficient numbers of academic and administrative personnel, about the lack of required teaching aids and appliances, about the insufficient technological devices and about the low number of library books. 15 to 20 years have elapsed. However, a good number of such universities have recovered their conditions and standards, and thus now have become prominent ones in their respective locations. I, hence, firmly believe that International Balkan University will get to be acknowledged as respectable academic institution in Macedonia within a short period of time. 

Bearing this belief in mind, I have worked within this understanding and philosophy since I took over the office of the Rector one year ago. The struggles for institutionalizing a newly-established university along the principles cited-above meant new sources of passion and dedication for me and academic staff. They have struggled hard so far, and still do so, with an ever-burning determination to fulfill the long-cherished hope. I, thus, taking this opportunity, am obliged to extend my sincere thanks to those who have endeavored hard to make this dream come true.
I hold the mission of International Balkan University as an initiative that was rendered 100 years ago, but, sadly left in the half-way through. In his visit to Skopje the then Sultan Reshad V, and Ottoman officials, decided on the establishment of the university in the Balkans, in Skopje, the heart of the Balkans. They, accordingly, laid the foundations of a university for this aim.  However, the project had to be terminated upon the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912. Therefore, we might as well claim that the cornerstones of the present University were actually laid by the Ottomans. We don’t know for sure whether the recent university and the then university building, which collapsed in 1963 quake, were the actual ones that were laid upon by Sultan Reshad V; but nevertheless, the foundation stones were actually laid on people’s minds. Here, we, after 100 years, are again tasked with the mission and vision of spreading the ‘university education’ of International Balkan University and of consolidating the fraternity and feelings of brotherhood through its establishment.

We are not a large or crowded university, and nor targeting skyrocketing numbers of students. Such universities are labeled ‘Boutique University’ as is coiled in the West. However, we are determined to educate and graduate small numbers of students but of impressive quality as ‘persons of universe’, who are tolerant, democratic, patriotic, philanthropic and pro-civilized. The sponsor and the guardians of International Balkan University donate so-called continuous charity (sadaka-i cariye) in a ‘donate-and-forget’ fashion. They, so-to-speak, hand over the university to the actual first owners through their heartfelt donations, and by so-doing, the history in this land is rewritten …

With my sincere regards,




Prof. Dr. Huner SENCAN
The Rector                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                      
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