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Albanian language students boycotted education, reducing the
Albanian student body from 27,000 to nil. This was welcomed by many Serbs, as funding would now be spent only on non-Albanian students. Remaining Albanian professors have continued to work for a while; however, after a year and a half of boycott, they were technological surpluses and were mostly dismissed. Those who were needed have been offered to work on education in Serbian language; however, because of threats and pressure directed at them by other Albanians, very few remained. Thus, Albanians have effectively shut themselves out of the university entirely: there were no Albanian-speaking staff to teach the students, and no Albanian-speaking students for the staff to teach.
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Yugoslavia. At the same time the university system contributed to unemployment, with highly educated and resentful Albanians becoming prime recruits for nationalist sentiment. In addition, the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo increasingly resented the economic and social burden incurred by the university's student population. By 1981, the University of Pristina had 20,000 students – one in ten of the city's total population.
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1969–1970 and functioned until 1999. However, owing to political upheaval, war, successive mutual expulsions of faculty of one ethnicity or the other, and resultant pervasive ethnic-based polarisation, there came to be two disjoint institutions using the same name, albeit idiosyncratically to reflect
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requested more self-governance for the region, extensive protests occurred in Kosovo during
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Albanians on 15 May 1998. However, Kosovo Serb protesters staged violent protests against the transfer and eventually had to be evicted by government forces. The buildings were extensively devastated, with furniture and equipment
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and parallel tax system and existed without any connection to the academic system, which led to a worsening of the quality of education (for example, students of medicine had no access to clinics, laboratories or other necessary equipment). However, the university professors have reported about a
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