Adopting practices of the US educational system in Macedonia.

On February 15, 2011 Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski visited George Washington University where he met the president of the university and discussed cooperation between GWU and Macedonian universities, and specifically with the University for Information Science and Technology (UIST). Prime Minister Gruevski was the first to initiate the idea for establishing a new university in Macedonia where the language of instruction was to be in English, it was supposed to be staffed primarily by "eminent" scholars from abroad, who would receive salaries equivalent to those at a typical US university, and it was supposed to be modeled on a typical State university in the US. Peter Bock, professor of Machine Intelligence and Cognition at GWU is the Chair of the International Advisory Board for the University for Information Science and Technology. The UIST "History" page states:
"After several months of thorough analysis and design, the IAB compiled a formal proposal for the curricula, operation, and governance of a progressive undergraduate University for Information Science and Technology (UIST). In the fall of 2008 this proposal was presented to the Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, as well as to members of the Macedonian academic and industrial communities, and was accepted wholeheartedly."
To this day there is no public access to the IAB proposal anywhere in Macedonia, so it's difficult for me to gage to what extent current practices at UIST follow the IAB proposal. I had an opportunity to teach at UIST as a Fulbright Scholar during its first year of operation, and having taught at US universities for 27 years I can attest that other than the fact that courses are taught in English there is practically nothing in the way the university is operated that resembles the US educational system. I applaud the Prime Minister's attempt to import US practices in the Macedonian system of higher education. However, I think there are two major obstacles that the system first must overcome before this can be realized. The main obstacle is the law on higher education, including the recent (February 2011) changes implemented by the Ministry of Education. Many parts of that law would be considered immoral and unethical by the standards of any US institution of higher education. Any US, or other foreign professor considering teaching at UIST should first read carefully this law, which spells in great detail all obligations and the monetary fines when these obligations are not followed. The second major obstacle is the "culture" of the system of higher education in Macedonia. I am certain that the International Advisory Board is not aware of the level of influence that politics plays in the running of institutions of higher education in Macedonia, nor of the level of influence that figures of authority, such as the Prime Minister, the Minister of Education and the Rector have in the day to day operation of the institution.
For the Prime Minister's plan to model Macedonian universities on those in the US to succeed, one of two things need to happen first. The law on higher education needs to be re-written from scratch, and I very much doubt it will happen during his lifetime. Or, a new law must be passed to exempt UIST and similar universities from functioning based on the current law, and I doubt very much that this would be acceptable to the academic community in Macedonia.
So, the question is, exactly what practices of the George Washington University and of the US educational system is the Prime Minister interested in implementing in Macedonian universities? I doubt very much it is anything beyond student and faculty exchanges. For better or worse, the current government has been more effective in establishing new educational institutions than any other government since Macedonia's independence. Since they have majority seats in parliament they have the power to pass any laws at will. It is just so unfortunate that they have so little understanding of the system and culture of higher education that they aim more for populism, quantity and photo opportunities than they do for truly enhancing the quality.