04.07.2021 – 22:00
In this newly closed school year we had about 28 thousand fewer enrollments in education than last year.
Almost in the same figure is the comparison with the school year 2019 with that of 2020. And this situation results in dozens of closed schools. In conditions of continuous decline in the number of students, the Independent Education Union of Albania in a public letter to the Minister of Education, Evis Kushi emphasizes the risk of teachers losing their jobs.
Based on this issue and with the aim of increasing the quality of education, the union has proposed to reduce the teaching rate of teachers of any subject profile, to no more than 20 hours per week. They also require that the number of students in the classrooms not be more than 25 students.
While emphasizing that schools that have a mass of dropouts and those who do not attend school often should be an exception, where as the number of students in the class and the weekly rate of teachers working with these students is 15, reports Tch.
On the other hand, the Education Union advises that teachers who are in the last 5 years of work be reduced their weekly teaching rate, 5 hours less for those who are in the last year of work, 4 hours for those who have two more years of work, three hours for the teachers who have 3 more years of work left and so on until they retire, so that the old teachers are not charged and the new ones are given more employment opportunities.
Decline in enrollment in education (source INSTAT)
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
677,818 652,592 641,161 612,534 584,616
About 25 thousand fewer students in 2017-2018 than in 2016-2017
12 thousand fewer students in 2018-2019 than in 2017-2018
29 thousand fewer students in 2019-2020 than in 2018-2019
28 thousand fewer students in 2020-2021 than in 2019-2020