Kosovo education

COVID-19 only exacerbated Kosovo education’s preexisting conditions

2020 was another difficult year in education with more misgovernance, political interference and poor test scores, while attempts to provide schooling during the pandemic often fell short.

Public money for private schools

Over the past 15 years, the Kosovo Government has allocated millions of euros from the state budget to a private school in Prizren, despite the legal basis for the payments being contested and the public education system suffering from a desperate lack of funds.

Educated by another state

For struggling Roma families in Kosovo, generous social assistance schemes from the Serbian Government are hard to pass up. But in return, their children often attend Serbian language schools, leaving them unprepared for a future life and career in Kosovo.

Teaching through the pain

The impossibility of early retirement in Kosovo is forcing over 200 teachers with serious illnesses to continue working in schools, with consequences for the teachers themselves, the children they teach and for the Kosovo education system.

Untold story: 49 years of the University of Prishtina

From the roots of its establishment and the history of student resistance to post-war mismanagement, a historical exhibition traces the development of the University of Prishtina over the last half century.