Publication: Financing Efficiency and Equity in Albanian Education
Date
2001-06
ISSN
Published
2001-06
Author(s)
Palomba, Geremia
Vodopivec, Milan
Abstract
This report compiles a rich set of
previously unavailable data to define where the education
sector in Albania has evolved, what key challenges remain,
and the priority areas for action by the Albanian
government. The report finds that four broad tasks must be
tackled to improve education. The country must: 1) increase
enrollment rates with the goal of achieving truly universal
education in primary and lower secondary schools, and
reversing the actual trend of decreasing secondary
enrollment; 2) improve the quality of education, which
requires developing human resource policies--such as teacher
development programs and improved salaries--that will
attract good teachers and give them incentives to perform
well in classrooms; and providing an adequate physical
school environment, which means, among other things,
renovating and adequately maintaining school buildings; 3)
increase public spending on education, which requires
developing clear priorities and reducing relative spending
on tertiary education; providing constant and reliable
funding to support the identified policy priorities; and
increasing spending on non-wage expenditures and
investments; and 4) make better use of teachers and
schoolsby decentralizing decisionmaking and responsibilities
that are more reasonably delegated to the local level.
Citation
“Palomba, Geremia; Vodopivec, Milan. 2001. Financing Efficiency and Equity in Albanian Education. World Bank Technical Paper;No. 512. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/14024 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”