Freely provided textbooks are available

Education Ministry officials said it is already ready for the first, sixth and tenth grade curriculum, with which it will begin in all Kosovo schools.

Even municipal education officials in Pristina have confirmed that everything is ready for learning to begin over time.

Final preparations are being made in programming as well as objective spaces so that school year 2017/18 can begin on September 1st.

The director of the pre-university department at the Ministry of Education, Mustaf Kadriu, has said the new pre-university education curriculum, which has been piloted for the past two years, will be implemented this year.

Kadriu added that even free textbooks are available, only this year that new texts will be distributed only for students of 1st to 5th classes, but for students of classes 6 to 9th will be delivered from generation to generation.

“There are stocks that can be used texts that may eventually be left without any text can also be used by stock that has been left of the previous years, students do not need to buy text”, Kadriu said.

But, Kadriu has indicated that English-language books could be delayed for 2-3 weeks, as they are not published in Kosovo and should come from abroad.

Everything is ready to start according to the teaching calendar, so has the director in Pristina's education resignation, Arberie Nagavci.

“In most schools, the inventory has been sent, filled where there is a need, the chair bank and so on, are continuing the work in school and nesting limes, then working on improving infrastructure in general, example mainly in the sanitation and toilet joints, then it's in the process of fixing the yard and so on”, Nagavci said.

In low middle education in Kosovo, more than 250 thousand students follow, about 27 thousand in the first grade.