Albania’s low education quality

For most of them, education is the big hope for a better life in the future. Unfortunately, this hope is being dimmed by the education system itself. Recent data from the Pisa tests show that more than half ot the Albanian students who go to schools turn out with functional illiteracy. This figure in 2012 was 52.3%. These are students who can read and write, but cannot understand or implement what they just read. Although this figure has been reduced in the past decade, it still remains very high.

But reading is not the only area with a bad performance by the education system. A recent Pisa report proved that the Albanian students have low results for Math and other sciences. Experts list a series of causes why the education system in Albania is failing, but bad financing remains the main one.

Public spending in the past year were 3.1% of the GDP. The Socialist Party promised to take it to 5%, but for this year this number didn’t move. This situation has been going on for more than two decades. The irony is that the last government with the most support to education is still the communist one, which in 1989 spent 4% of the GDP for this sector. This number has dropped since then, and the consequences are visible.

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