Education

Recommendations

1. Ensure that education reform addresses discriminatory content aimed at other societal groups based on their ethnicity, religion, gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, etc. and devise an oversight mechanism 

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2. Conduct needs assessments/evaluations more often to understand the gap between the needs of the labor market and current educational outputs and create feedback mechanisms with the private and public sectors

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3. Integrate elective courses for learning regional languages into elementary/secondary school curricula 

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4. Reinstate Faculty of Languages in North Mitrovica/Mitrovicë and Pristina a separate department for Albanian/Serbian language and culture​

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5. Offer more opportunities for educational practitioners and students from both systems to come together and discuss education-related matters (science, technology etc.);

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6. Train teachers from all communities on values of tolerance and non-discrimination and extend such knowledge to parents through regular consultations or group meetings. 

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7. Prevent youth-based violence by educating young people on mediation and dialogue as alternative ways of dealing with conflict.

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8. Increase efforts of informal education initiatives in challenging existing narratives through innovative and creative approaches, such as digital and state-of-the-art technologies in conveying positive narratives; 

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9. The group failed to provide concrete proposals on the follow-up mechanism, but broadly suggested that a task force should be established to oversee the implementation of small-scale projects at the grassroots level in close partnership with municipalities, central authorities, and international community. 

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10. Introduce curricular and textbook changes, enabling sufficient and more objective cultural and historical representation of all non-majority communities in both education systems in Kosovo 

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Education

11. Reinforce incorporation and further development of human rights education in the curricula of primary and secondary education institutions with a strong focus on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity as impetus for attitudinal change.

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Education

12. Encourage exchange of views between educational practitioners from both systems on the issues of discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying etc.

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13. Make sure that psychosocial support is readily available in all schools by contracting qualified practitioners  

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14. Ensure that teaching materials are affordable and produced and distributed in the quantities needed to meet the requirements of school staff

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15. Advocate for the enactment of administrative instructions that would expand the diploma verification process to vocational schools and high schools

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Education

16. Include civil society in the oversight of the existing mechanisms in high education (i.e. assessing compliance with the existing regulations) 

1 Initiative

Education

17. Advocate that recommendations from Consultative Council for Communities be fully taken on board, particularly those that relate to increasing access of vulnerable communities to quality education and fighting institutional discrimination 

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