After about 20 years of successful work by the University of Pristina, the years 1989-1990 marked the beginning of unstoppable Serbian efforts to destroy higher education in Kosovo, reports KosovaPress.

With the arrival of Slobodan Milosevic at the head of Serbia, an ultra-nationalist figure in Serbian politics, who instigated national-chauvinist policies against Albanians, first among Kosovo Serbs, then in Serbia and beyond, Albanian schools in Kosovo, in particular the University of Pristina, received major blows that led to serious endangerment, with the proportions of the destruction of Albanian education. The Serbian nationalist government was committed to changing and banning the Albanian sole in Kosovo.

The situation at the university was getting worse, along with the situation in all of Kosovo. The university center was no longer the shelter of Albanian students or professors. As soon as the summer semester of the academic year 1990/91 ended, on June 28, 1991, on the day of Vidovdan, (Serbian religious holiday), the Assembly of Serbia imposed violent measures on the University of Pristina.

During the new academic year the violent leader, dominated by Serbo-Montenegrin cadres, increased the number of students to 923 students, mostly Serbian students brought from different parts of Serbia and Montenegro.

On February 14, 1992, the University of Pristina announced that on February 17 of the same year, teaching at the university level would begin, and so it happened.

In 2019, the law on the status of education workers was passed, according to which teachers who worked in the education system 1990-'99 are offered benefits after retirement.

In addition to the teachers, according to the law, even the owners of the houses who at that time have released their facilities, to be used as schools, will enjoy benefits, as well as the technical and service workers.