What is the labour market in Kosovo looking for?

However, this selection of these profiles by education affairs experts and business representatives is required to be changed and the selection to be done in line with labour market requirements.

According to them, the job market also requires these professions, but others are the ones most sought, and it can be easier to find a job.

Education Affairs expert Halim Hyseni tells Radio Free Europe that young people would have to be instructed in the land, for which the labour market in Kosovo needs more.

“Researchers, students competing at universities have arrived at the census without professional orientation, without adequate preparation to compete with the logic of the local market, but also the international market”.

“here in Kosovo lacks student education and accession development policies, with these policies not favour those jobs, those educational profiles that require the market, but are made on the basis of student interest, which is mostly in human sciences where even their process is easier”, Hyseni notes.

Pristina University has 17 faculties, of which 14 are academic faculties, while 3 are schools of applied science.

The number of students at Pristina University year-on-year has marked increases, currently at this university studying more than 45 thousand students.

Meanwhile, the number of students to be admitted to seven public universities in Kosovo for the 2017/2018 academic year is 15,255 students.

Berat Rukiqi, an economist at the Kosovo Economic Ode, tells Radio Free Europe that what is offered within public and private universities should be reformed, as current programmes do not enable young people to be equipped with the skills that address labour needs.

A process of substantial reform of the educational system that allows for education from labour market needs, should happen as soon as possible, the better”.

What we're looking at right now is the following of the last train. A large number of those who finish high school will continue to go to public and private faculties, not analyzing the future, and not having the opportunity to have an assessment or alternative in the near future to secure a post of”, Rukiqi says.

He adds that universities in Kosovo have programmes that are largely old for decades, until for a decade the economy in both other countries of the world and Kosovo has marked changes.

In Kosovo, according to business representatives, jobs are expected in the near future to be created in the food processing industry sector, mining and mining, energy and that youth orientation should be done at these profiles.

“We have a movement towards skills that are less connected to social sciences towards those that are with the implementation of various pieces related to production, engineering skills, more require valuable hands and people who are able to transmit new technologies and implement new technologies”, Rukiqi adds.

“Here in Kosovo Lacks Education System Development Policy and Accession