Education in Kosovo

These reforms aimed at adjusting the education in Kosovo according to European and global contemporary standards.

[2] Around four (4) percent of Yugoslav people attended secondary education, with rural areas being the regions with the lowest numbers of participants since access to schools was almost nonexistent.

[2] During this period, the most marginalized group who was deprived from attending schools were girls coming from Muslim families.

[2] This marked a positive turn in the educational system in Kosovo since schools in Albanian were allowed to be opened.

[2] Texts and teaching materials were imported from Albania, as part of an agreement between the University of Tirana and that of Pristina in 1970.

[2] As a result of this protest, the previous agreement between Albania and Kosovo, to exchange educational materials, ended and Serbo-Croatian books started to be translated in Albanian to fulfil the needs of the university.

[2] A new curriculum concentrated more in covering Serbian culture and history and that made Serbo-Croatian a compulsory subject in Kosovo high schools was adopted in 1990.

[2] In the 1990s, Kosovars established a parallel education system as a temporary solution to the situation created during that period.

[2] Around 300-450,000 students boycotted the state educational institutions and attended the parallel Albanian-language private schools.

[2] On September 1, 1996, President of Serbia, Milošević and Kosovar leader, Rugova signed the Milošević-Rugova education agreement that would allow ethnic Albanian students and teachers to return to schools.

To maintain this, a shift schedule was applied so that Serb students attended the lectures in the morning and Albanians in the afternoon.

[2] In response to this agreement and as a way to show their disagreement, Serb students and professors at the University of Pristina organized a protest where 10,000 people were gathered.

The education in primary schools in Kosovo is held in five languages: Albanian, Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish, and Croatian.

[6] 5,500+ participants took part in exchanges between the EU and Kosovo in the areas of education, training, youth, and sport under ERASMUS+ (2014-2020).