Education Minister Vesna Janevska announced that "much larger irregularities" at faculties will soon come to light. The trigger is the scandal at UKIM's Philosophy Faculty, where seven master's and four doctoral students were illegally enrolled since 2019 - with three-year vocational rather than academic undergraduate degrees.

The State Education Inspectorate invalidated the enrollments and terminated their studies. Eight students have already completed master's degrees, though the validity of their diplomas remains unclear. None reached the doctoral level.

"There are many irregularities in certain institutions and they will be handled according to law," Janevska stated. Rector Biljana Angelova confirmed that the violations occurred between 2019 and 2022 under previous leadership. As a possible solution, she mentioned new accredited programs and re-enrollment.

So people enrolled in master's programs without the right to do so, graduated, received diplomas - and now nobody knows if those diplomas are worth anything. The system reacted only after five years. Will anyone ask who signed those enrollments and why nothing seemed illogical?