End of new school year: PDK criticises Kurti Government for lack of online learning plan

Shala said that today on September 1st, the day the new school year has always started in Kosovo -- about 25 thousand students -- accompanied by their parents would have to start first grade, but the education minister has not taken any concrete steps to work on creating conditions for the start of the new school year.

The same government was in power last year when the pandemic began, and today we can perceive without any dilemma that we have lost a school year for Kosovo students and are now risking losing another year. Knowing now and several months that the delta version of the virus is also easily affecting children and its distribution is emerging to be frightening, the International Health Institutes have recommended that the vaccine begin to take place for children aged 12. But, unfortunately, the Ministry of Education has not taken a step to coordinate with the Ministry of Health to ensure vaccination of students aged 12 to 18 that in our country in this age group there are 165 students. On the other hand, the vaccine of all teachers has not yet ended, while the Ministry of Education has come out with the attitude that teaching with physical presence will begin on 13 September. “, Shala said.

He has accused the Ministry of Education of irresponsible should say that today he has not presented any plans for online learning at the time when the world is moving towards education of 3.0 and hybrid classes, and at a time when, according to reports of institutions dealing with data analysis, in Kosovo Internet use was over 95% in January 2021.

“With all these preconditions and the possibility that GOGOGLE offers through the platform “Education Bases”, free of charge, Minister Arberie Nagavci and her cabinet have shown themselves unable to manage education. We call on the Ministry of Education and the Government of Kosovo to ensure online learning prosperity for Kosovo students until the provision of citizen vaccines. Students should not lose more because they have also been badly damaged last year with a poor organisation of the learning process.”, Shala stressed.

The PDK considers that MASTI cannot leave out of co-ordination Kosovo teachers and should provide real quality of online learning, which should include continued training of online teaching teachers, equipment of students in need of technological equipment, digitisation of school literature.

In this difficult pandemic period, the Ministry of Education should also have concrete plans to digitise effective communication between the Municipal Directors of Education, Trade Union and Parents. According to him, in this difficult period, the Ministry of Education should have concrete plans to digitise effective communication between the Municipal Directors of Education, Union and Parents.”, Shala concluded.