The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, met today with a group of
high-school graduates who won the right to attend public universities.
Rama said the position in which they currently are, shows that the
education reform is working.
“Everyone from the best students have won at least in four universities. This is the truth of this reform, which is very necessary and much delayed”, Rama said.
According to the government leader, there are two reasons why this reform is functional. “First of all, because it has full transparence. Secondly, it is based on the competition that is dictated by results. It makes it impossible for external factors to intervene, which has always been the gangrene of our university system”, Rama declared.
The Prime Minsiter said that Albanian youth is well informed about the possibilities offered by the new system, different from the first one, that was imposing their choices.
“High-school graduates were forced to calculate coefficients and decide about their future in a very young and fragile age. They were forced to follow a university major since when they were 15”, Rama said.
“Today you are free, because you have received the first fruit of the success that you have built through hard work for three years. The past system couldn’t allow you change the major, or even the ranking. You were slaves of a choice made since you were 15”, Rama added, saying that another positive point of the new system is the chance to appeal a decision.
The Prime Minister also mentioned that on September 22nd, universities will declare their empty places and the rest of high-school graduates can compete for them.
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