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He has spoken extensively about the labour market and the unqualified power in the country, like other leaders that Kosovo had in power and who are in place, precisely lack of professional frameworks for the labour market.

Kurt has used a new term in his “axacamic” but with his fingernails, thus giving him a mock meaning, Periscope follows.

Our economy is highly dependent on imports even though we have many young people who can do much better than how they work at call centers ( Call Centers or taxi driver. The problem is that our market has nowhere to employ all those academics. The chairman of Vetevendosje writes in rows, openly implying that his government will not find jobs for all graduates from public universities in the country.

A taxi driver who has completed studies but does not know the roads is not over-qualified. He's just not qualified for his work. A businessman who does not know accounting is not overqualified, but unqualified for his work. Kurt.

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Speech at vocational Education Festival organised by TC Meister in collaboration with Friedri ch -Ebert- Stiftung

Honored representatives of German, Swiss and Austrian embassies and institutions,

Honored representatives of business associations here in Kosovo,

Dear students and students, professors and parents,

Your Honor. Ymer,

Thank you for the invitation. It's nice to meet you at a training center and not in a fancy hotel. In this center as your future is built, because some dedicated people have decided to do something real and not just talk about ideas.

Our new government is determined to repair Kosovo. Progress and promotion of development with equal opportunities for all starts with better education, professional qualifications, and the development of each individual's potential. These have been the biggest deficits over the past two decades. When I talk about education and qualifications, I don't talk about a kind of sense that the ʹacaldementism is taking place in Kosovo, which is being promoted by both the public and private sector of middle and higher education.

Many young people are forced to study on a program without knowing what their talents are, and end up as “acamics”. Not all young people want to study and that's fine. Young people who do not want to study are very much needed for tasks and other equally important professions in our country and our country.

I am not talking about the serious state of education in Kosovo. Because we've seen the test results. P ISA. This is no place to talk about university quality, even though there's no better situation than in high and low schools.

But, the situation in the area of nonacademic professional education is much worse, and I believe for three main reasons. First, professional schools face poor quality of practical teaching. Second, the qualifications they offer result in not enough adequate for job market demands, since they are not profiled as the market requires and requires. Third, graduates from these schools are not sufficiently competitive in the market inside and outside Kosovo.

For example, we have very few engineers in various fields technically complex and well - qualified architects, even masters of repairs and managers, etc. One thousand architects studying at the university cannot build 1,000 homes. We have mainly workers, poorly trained professionals, with poor qualifications, who can hardly turn the architect's design into a real home. We're short of good masons, electricalists, plumbers, austainers, etc. These are just a few examples, but they are all about our society and our economy.

Our economy is highly dependent on imports even though we have a lot of young people who can do much better than how they work at call centers ( Call Centers or taxi driver. The problem is that our market has nowhere to employ all those academics.

You know this sad joke they tell in Pristina, that every time a waiter serves you, you try and take your best time and let your folks know that he's had a lot of school, there are some who have 15, and there are those who have 17 years of schooling. But they're forced to work as a waiter.

At the same time, companies seek qualified professionals in almost all areas. We have great unemployment, but also lack of qualified workers. They're looking for agriculture, production, services, etc., and without them it's hard to attract foreign investment, whether it's investment from our own exile or from others. But this is also difficult for investment within our country, because a thriving economy is the emerging economy. Our workforce is not competitive with other countries around, and companies are often forced to find workers abroad and bring them to Kosovo.

I've had the luck of meeting Mr. President this year. Stars of chance on a plane, and this guy called me there, but he didn't know I've known him for years. I've known this from before, I've known him since 2011 when I started living in a building that has an elevator production of his firm. But I have to admit that the morning staircase, I take it down by elevators, even though it's good for health, but also because it works as a good political metaphor: politics needs to go up the stairs, and get down by the elevator quickly.

In Kosovo we have about 70% of people under the age of 30, and many of those working do not have regular work contracts. Why is that?

One reason is what we believe and make our children believe that academic education is “the best possible path”. Many parents believe that and do everything they can to enable their children to study. Sometimes they don't care what children study, much more important than what they study. What's with the girl? Student. What's your son? Student. Even then a kind of self-sufficient situation that little says.

It's amazing how much they believe a <x0-axaquemic” does everything. You can't find another place where so many are believed to be the “the enemy” can do it all. Of course not! Because even the best studies cannot replace skill and practical qualifications and practical work.

I've often been in Germany, a country known for functional and powerful economies. There are fewer young people there who study. It is often because they like it more. The case of Genc Shaban from Germany, who is here and who is attending the meeting, is a case that tells his history of schooling in Germany that serves us a lot as an example for us to attend in Kosovo.

The German economy, the largest in Europe and among the largest in the world with sustainable growth, stands above two safe legs: academic professionals and non-accademic professionals. Both economic legs are equally strong! That's why the healthy economy. Not one-legged economy, economy with both legs. academic professionals and non-accademic professionals.

And if we look at the fields of sectors in which our co-owners in Germany are very successful, then we see that they are not only in academic fields.

To return to what I said earlier: There is no architect who can build a house, take care of it, or maintain it.

I've been interested in how much non-acadedics in Germany are in: many good professionals earn more than academics. That's because they're very wanted in the market. This is market law: what is urgently costing more. Our job market is not exactly a job market: because academics can sell slaps, while buyers in this case are looking for apples. Thus, it is difficult to talk about a market. Previously, a moat may be spoken of.

Sometimes we talk about “over-qualified” of young people. In fact, there are no overprecious qualifications, just the right qualifications.

A taxi driver who has completed his studies but does not know the roads is overqualified. He's just not qualified for his work. A businessman who does not know accounting is not overqualified, but unqualified for the work he does.

Kosovo's economy suffers from the lack of adequately qualified people for all tasks and jobs that must be done in order to have a functional economy that brings growth and sustainable development with opportunities for all.

Today we are in an impressive training center that enables good technicians to build, repair, and maintain. I'm so grateful to see this and I can experience it here. I have lots of hope in young people being trained here because they are an important part of our economic development!

And I'm proud that's not a foreign project, but that has smart entrepreneurs like Mr. Ymer, who knows that only qualified professionals can advance those and our entire country. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Ymer, Chief of the Centre for Training “Mister”, for the possibility of being here at the beginning of a new time for Kosovo.

We promised the people that we will move the country forward. We said we should get education and business, education and economics. And we have a hopeful situation because thousands of enthusiastic young people are just waiting for their chance. This training center offers good opportunities for young people - good qualifications, safe work, and good opportunities for progress!

For me as prime minister, good education and good technical qualifications will be essential tasks because me and all of us want to develop the economy. We develop the economy only when we offer the right qualifications for today's and tomorrow's job market. With economic development comes prosperity and the best living conditions.

With changes coming to Kosovo, the role of our exile must also be changed. Those of the consumer money distributors must become investors in Kosovo. So earlier than an international donor conference we had after declaring independence, we need a national investors' conference after the big change of October 6, 2019.

We have successful people on the stake who would be willing to invest here. But to invite them to invest in Kosovo, to win their hearts and their minds back home as a vacationer in our future economy we must create some preconditions. We need to guarantee them legal security and have professional employees who are qualified to work in those new companies that will open up. These preconditions are necessary guarantees for them to make their investments in Kosovo safe and stable. The future government will encourage investments through concrete relief and support policies.

Based on a study that has become businessmen, our fellow countrymen in Western Europe are largely more concerned about the safety of investments than about winning their own company. They are more important not to lose than to win. But in Kosovo they do not come because they are almost certain they will lose. And with our new government, with a rule of law that maintains competition in the market, which helps those who want to get rich by work, by law and by honor, of course expect to change the situation radically.

I'm also taking an example of the environment, you know the air pollution in Pristina especially during the winter season. We need friendly environmental technology, for example, for clean energy production we need engineers and professionals with complex qualifications and skills.

We urgently need to avoid pollution for this we need adequate education and skill. We need it. recycling companies based on effective technical infrastructure. Kosovo is a small country with great density to endure these illegal open depots. Foresting is also urgently needed and riverbeds and banks are repaired. For all of this, we need to increase adequate education and open new jobs in respective areas. These things are very important for improving our lives steadily but also for the duration of our lives.

I believe you all have the chance to hear how the average life expectancy in Kosovo is seven years lower than in Albania, than compared to Western European countries where we aspire to membership. We don't have the shortest life expectancy because we're tired of our jobs, but because we've failed to create jobs that are necessary for our well-being and health.

We need to take care of the environment. The clean environment brings more jobs than poor energy and mountains of uncirculated waste.

I'm not taking it any further, because you've come to be informed about your future and your children's future.

But I want to assure you once again that education and professional qualifications are duty that we will not leave only to the relevant ministries. This is also my duty as prime minister.

I'm going to make sure we all work on establishing the quality of education and professional qualifications, that's what we're starting with this meeting at the Meister Training Center.

There is only one more important thing in Kosovo than education and the economy, and that is the connection of education to the economy.

I thank you from the heart and wish you success. Our support, and my personal, constant, for this private entrepreneurship initiative will be indisputable. And now I'm going to pass on to the students who are the ones who are going to be engaged in and who are committed to our duties, for which we are also politicians.

Thank you.