Education experts consider that the quality of education has failed. According to them, the institutions have forgotten their mission to provide education. They estimate that restructuring is needed in the entire quality assurance process within the school.
The former Deputy Minister of Education, Xhavit Rexhaj, has mentioned for KosovaPress, some of the problems that affect the quality of education.
According to him, there are not enough financial means for the quality organization of teaching, but at the same time there is also a wrong structuring of the way of investment of means in education.
"The human factor is the number one factor for the quality of education in Kosovo, I mean all levels without exception, including teachers, but also policy makers. People and institutions have forgotten their own mission to provide education, a quality that is expressed through the development of children, productive and useful people for themselves, the family and society. We have forgotten this. We go to work to go, work and there is a total disconnect between rules, policies, other guidelines and the reality of what happens in school. There are two more problems, Kosovo is a poor country, there are not enough financial resources for the quality organization of education, but at the same time there is also a wrong structuring of resources, the way of investment of resources in education, first of all because over 80 per percent only goes to wages, and education is not just sending people to class or school, giving them wages, but education has to be thought of with something. This focus on salaries has meant that teachers and schools are not properly supported to make the experiences of children in the classroom richer, with different technologies that will give meaning to learning", said Rexhaj.
Rexhaj said that the budget for education should go to the right places, not the way it was before. According to him, a real restructuring is needed.
"Don't build schools, but enrich the classrooms inside and support the teachers. And don't hire more teachers but use the ones inside to add to the educational services. Even teachers do not have any other commitment that would be beyond teaching, for example, career counseling, psychological services, emotional-psychological support, activities depending on talents, these would have enriched the learning experiences at school. Therefore, I consider that it is necessary to have a real restructuring, not just for the eyes, to offer not only teaching, but also emotional support for the student, support against bullying, and others as long as the school needs it. If the budget for education has been increased, it should go to the right places, not as it was before, except in cases of necessity, to go to new schools and the employment of new teachers and officials in education, because we are harming the children". Rexhaj added.
According to the executive director of the EdGuard Institute, Rinor Qehaja, the lack of quality in education is the lack of accountability and responsibility.
Qehaja has asked the Ministry of Education to restructure the entire quality assurance process within the school.
"The lack of quality has a single input and that is the lack of accountability and responsibility, we are not lacking in documents, legislation and strategy, but we are lacking in responsibility for failures, we are lacking in responsibility for improvisations and systems. All this is returning to us as long-term damage to the development of students, it is a responsibility towards the same. It would be good to have an increasing number of inspectors, but first of all we have to restructure the entire quality assurance process inside the school, that is, a very large independence for the school. In order for this quality assurance in our schools to be guaranteed, it is imperative that we have an improvement in quality in education and in the classroom. So, any reform that comes to us regarding quality must directly affect the student in the classroom, with reforms that guarantee us a better quality teaching", said Qehaja./KSP
