Teachers Without Online Teaching

With online learning in the form of how it is organised in Kosovo's education institutions, they are not joining the Kosovo Parents' Council either.

The Kosovo government has made the decision from 12 April to 18 April, all public and private institutions of pre-university education to organise all educational activities online.

Meanwhile, pre-school institutions will continue operating normally, respecting measures and counter recommendations COVID-19.

But after a meeting Wednesday, Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Arberie Nagavci has announced that classes 1 to 5.

Fetman Jasharaj, leader of the United Trade Union for Education, Science and Culture, told Radio Free Europe that learning will be developed online as the government has predicted, but according to him, there are no satisfactory conditions for this form of learning.

Last year's “is seen as online learning is difficult to organise, separately in Kosovo, where conditions are not right, whether proper technology is lacking, teachers are not equipped with laptops. There are also families living in parts that are not connected to the Internet, and there are families that have a serious economic situation and do not have technology in their homes”, Jasharaj says.

In March of last year, when schools were closed worldwide because of the coronary pandemic, many families relied on online instruction as opportunities to continue education.

An international report by the United Nations Children's Agency (UNICEF) that praised online learning at the time noted that for one in three children in the world, there was no access to any kind of instruction at a distance.

Jasharaj shows that online learning is making Internet problems even more difficult. He says it happens that in some villages the internet is weak and students cannot switch to online learning.

Internet use has seen great growth in Kosovo in recent years. According to Kosovo Statistics Agency data, 93 percent of Kosovars have internet access.

Telecommunications expert Dritt Elshani had long ago said that the decline in the quality of internet service was presented after the use of Internet services by many public and private institutions has increased rapidly, due to safeguards caused by the pandemic and the coronary.

Meanwhile, Youth Qehaja, director at the Institute for Education Studies “Edgood”, says online learning could be more effective if students' interactivity in learning was larger during online classes.

But that, says Qehaja, requires dedicated and professionally prepared teachers for effective online teaching methodology, which, according to him, will take time and investment of all acts.

Online teaching can hardly be more efficient in the situation that we are and with all the shortcomings of our educational system, including lack of teaching, lack of access to instruction and concentration by students, and, above all, the community's lack of awareness of online learning. So failure to efficient online learning is not surprising, but reminder of the need for urgent reform in education”, Qehaja says.

Ymret Resitij chairman of the Council of Parents of Kosovo, meanwhile, says there are no conditions for online learning, and the government's decision must be revised.

Think again, because it's going to be a failure of the learning process if students don't get physical in attendance at school. From April 12th, online learning offers nothing, and we as parents take it as the end of school year”, says Resitij.

Poor quality of education in Kosovo

The education sector in Kosovo for years has faced major problems and without adequate improvement in specific areas.

Students in Kosovo, according to a World Bank report released in September last year, was stressed that they have a high interest in learning.

This report noted that a child who starts school at age 4 can expect 13.2 years of schooling by his 18th birthday.

But when the actual teaching of children is calculated, the expected years of schooling are only 7.9. So, according to the World Bank, there's a 5.3-year teaching gap