Prishtina, 4 August 2022
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosova, Albin Kurti, today held a conversation with scholarship holders of the Summer Institute 2022 “Teach for Kosova”. Among other things, leadership, education and innovation were discussed there.
Prime Minister Kurti, during his introductory speech, said that it is very important to discuss leadership and activism in the light of education, because as he said, he believes that knowledge moves people.
Today, he said, Kosovo has 327 thousand 676 students and 23 thousand 33 teachers, i.e. one teacher for 14 students, where among the main tasks and responsibilities of teachers are the identification of the potential and talent of children in order to nurture it further.
“A teacher should be a discoverer of the tendencies and talents of the students and I believe that each of us should give our own contribution to society in this aspect”.
Education, according to Prime Minister Kurti, has to be comprehensive. No one, he further added, should be left aside or behind, and that those who have the greatest opportunities also have the greatest responsibilities to help others.
While he emphasized the focus of governance towards innovation, Prime Minister Kurti added that new methods and things are needed to mark substantial progress.
He said that with the old methods you can’t do more than eventually catch up with someone else, but breakthroughs and leading are not possible without innovation, emphasizing digitalization that will first have to focus on industry, public administration, education and health.
Prime Minister Kurti also said that it is very important to establish a connection between professional education and the labour market, which is also the government’s goal.
During this conversation, Prime Minister Kurti also mentioned some of the main achievements of education during these 16 months of governance, as follows:
– Accession to Horizon Europe;
– Free public education for Bachelor and Master studies;
– Functionalization of the State Council of Quality of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency and the National Council of Science;
– 100 additional assistants for children with special needs; 300 are budgeted for the next year – 2023;
– Provision of dual education in three profiles: hairdresser, cook and restaurant assistant, from the 2022/2023 school year;
– Solving the problem of recognizing thousands of university diplomas through the process of verifying and authenticating them;
– Over 3,000 scholarships for distinguished students for studies at home and abroad;
– 1356 university scholarships for girls in the field of STEM
– Budgets for education over 12 percent higher;
– Textbooks in the language of the communities so that we can all be as integrated as possible;
– 150,000 euro for scholarships for students from the Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali communities; then,
– 3.5 million euros for the provision of vocational internship for students of vocational education and training schools;
– 106 scholarships to encourage girls to pursue technical profiles and boys to pursue deficit profiles;
– 957 vouchers for graduates of vocational schools to attend courses in Information and Computer Technology;
– An agreement was signed with 7 municipalities for the establishment of career centres based in vocational schools,
– GLOBAL curriculum was launched and provided – a program for the education of young people, which is part of the Faculty of Education;
– For the first time, the Scheme for Research-based Teaching is being implemented, as a form of encouraging scientific research and teaching in higher education.
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