Overcrowding of schools in the capital affects quality

Students of the 6th class of the school “Independence” in the capital, in civil education classes, learn their rights as children. But the success of learning in this large class of students remains challenging.

Even legalisation work and evaluation work compared to a small number of students is difficult. The difference is noted. We've also noticed the difference between groups in the time of pandemic when we've worked, that the greatest success is achieved when the number is much smaller”, it says about RTK at Hatage Jakupi, teaching subject “Citizen Education”.

1700 students currently have this school, while the object has a capacity of up to 800 students. As a result, school principals have been forced to divide learning into three shifts and on short hours.

The first subset starts at 7;30, the second in 12 and 20, in 15:40 minutes. But this also carries a total damage to the quality of teaching development of a major educational education process, because we've also been forced to cut down on classes. Like. The first four hours is 40 minutes, where they're in six hours, until the 5th and 6th are in 35 minutes. Otherwise, the third watch would run until 9:18x1>, noted Shefki Rusanovci, principal of the school “Independence”.

Education experts say overcrowding students in schools contributes to lowering quality in education.

And what is witnessed to us in every classroom is obviously that schools on 3 shifts are more imposed under no better working conditions for teachers, with no better conditions for student learning, and all of this together, no doubt contributing to a lower quality”, is expressed by Youth Qehaja of the Eduard Institute.

The education director in the municipality of Pristina, Besiana Musmati, said that by September of this year, primary school “Independence” will be added to an annex as well.

“Very soon will start building anaxis and parachutes to take place during the summer season. We hope very much to end it all in September because it's a complaint that the annex is not too big. By September, I believe students at the school will have more space”, Besiane Musmurati, education director in the Pristina municipality, said.

According to her, the inauguration of the new school in the neighbourhood “positioning” in Veternik and the other two that will start soon, one at Matti 1 and the other in Sofali, will contribute to the release of spaces at the school “Independence”.