9 minutes agoAbout 4 million student shortages in Kosovo schools for only the first half anniversary
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(2 months ago)Nearly 4 million shortages have been registered in Kosovo schools at primary and middle level, for only the first half of the 2025/26 school year, where nearly 1 million of them are without reason. Education Minister Hajrula Ceku considers co-operation with municipalities could create solutions. Over 280 thousand students follow the lesson [...]
Over 280 thousand students follow the elementary and middle lesson in Kosovo's public and private schools.
But school banks are not always full.
During the first half anniversary of the 2025/26 school year alone, students in Kosovo have accumulated an estimated 4 million shortages.
Of them, nearly 1 million lack have been made for no reason.
In primary education, which includes 1st to 9th classes, over 568 thousand unreasonable shortages have been recorded, therefore each student, on average missing at least 3 times without reason.
The disturbing situation is also in high schools.
Over 67 thousand students have accumulated nearly 400 thousand unreasonable absences, or nearly 6 student absences, for just half an year.
According to former Deputy Education Minister Dukagjin Popovci, most of them are related to leaving the hour.
Many of them are attributed to “hykje” from class hours, whether because of student non-preparation, lack of interest, or even excessive exposure to digital equipment, and here there is always a problem of where they stay during the time they're in lessons”, highlighted Dukan Popovci, former minister of education.
On the other hand, reasonable shortages also figure in high numbers for the same period of time.
According to the Ministry of Education, there are over 2 million in primary education, which averages 10 lack of students.
High school's over 705 thousand reasonable shortages, or about 11 per student.
However, Popovci also questions this category.
The number of reasonable shortages dominates, but it doesn't mean anything because those students are missing lessons, and often, these happen because families are deciding to go on vacation during the school year, it's about a chain break between school and family”, Popovci has declared, RTV Dukagini, broadcast Periscope.
Education Minister Hajrula Ceku says the solution requires co-operation with municipalities.
“Arsyet may be different, we need to look carefully, we need to expect the municipalities themselves to address these issues, do the analysis of why they come in such numbers of learning hours, and based on those found, we know how we should act jointly”, Ceku stated.
Over 214 thousand students attend the lesson at the primary and lower middle level, and the middle class is over 67 thousand students. /Periscope/
