Origin and Development of Higher Education and Scientific Institutions in Post WW II Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945-1958) Cover Image

Nastanak i razvoj visokoškolskih i naučnih ustanova u BiH nakon Drugog svjetskog rata (1945–1958)
Origin and Development of Higher Education and Scientific Institutions in Post WW II Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945-1958)

Author(s): Senija Milišić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; University of Sarajevo; faculties; institutes; education; research; scientific development; scientific works; human resources

Summary/Abstract: The main challenge and scientific contribution of this paper is that the establishing and development of academic and scientific institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina is obscure area within the process of development and institutionalization of science as a highly important part in the construction of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the crucial stages of its statehood’s establishment. In such circumstances, the opening of the University of Sarajevo in 1949 stood for a rather significant scientific, educational, cultural and social achievement in the development of B&H. One of the most important developmental phases is characterized by a higher degree of development of higher education and scientific institutions and scientific life in B&H. In this period, the most important educational and scientific institutions, faculties, two year and four-year colleges and institutes which subsequently merged into the University. This fact was an important event in cultural and scientific transformation of B&H, but also one of the most important constituent of its statehood. In this way, the University had become a center of education, science and research. Science become a factor of general progress and had its share in overcoming underdevelopment and transformation of B&H in the middle income countries.

  • Issue Year: LII/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 83-96
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian