Representatives of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republika Srpska, at the invitation of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture, participated in meetings aimed at reaching an open discussion with representatives of the Statistical Offices of the Republika Srpska, FBiH and BiH and academia regarding the improvement of the quality, availability and timeliness of data in the field of higher education in relation to domestic and international needs. Meetings held in Banja Luka on March 16 and 17, 2021 opened the space for a broader and quality discussion where very important and concrete observations and proposals for improving statistical forms in higher education were presented, with an emphasis on timeliness, content of forms for data collection and data availability.
The presented proposals will serve statistical institutions in the development of a web application for data collection, which aims to facilitate the collection and availability of data. Revised statistical forms and web application will be in use from the next academic year.