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Students Drop Out Parental involvement in Kosovo

Students Drop Out Parental involvement in Kosovo. Aferdita Spahiu , UNICEF Kosovo 20 October, Geneva. Gender Review in Education 2002 Who drops out from school?. Girls in rural areas Girls a fter grade 9 Roma, Ashkalija and Egyptian Boys in upper secondary education.

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Students Drop Out Parental involvement in Kosovo

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  1. Students Drop Out Parental involvement in Kosovo AferditaSpahiu, UNICEF Kosovo 20 October, Geneva

  2. Gender Review in Education 2002Who drops out from school? • Girls in rural areas • Girls after grade 9 • Roma, Ashkalija and Egyptian • Boys in upper secondary education

  3. Causal Analysis 2004 • Poverty • Lack of perspective • Distance to school • Mentality • Education level of parents………

  4. Child Friendly Schools • Parental involvement in schools • Parent Teachers Councils and schools engaged on students drop out

  5. Definition of drop out • a student who leaves school before completing a certain education level or a student who leaves without returning, during a given school year.

  6. National Statistics and Data! • Accuracy of the data • Estimations • Surveys

  7. Parent Teacher Councils’ model Model built on findings of a survey Five municipalities Specifics of areas/regions

  8. School drop out prevention reponse team • Mechanism to address the issue at the level of school and community. • Resource kit

  9. Early warning • irregular school attendance • low learning achievements • family poverty • alcohol, substance abuse,smoking • perceived inferiority • lack of interest for school • skipping classes • Dropout prevention and reponse team

  10. Three steps action 1. Contact the school drop out team 2. Action plan 3. Implementation of the action plan

  11. Results • Cooperation between communities, parents, schools and government institutions • Parental involvement regulated by education law • Municipal action plans developed in seven municipalities • National action plan endorsed • Administrative instruction on response teams •  PTAsactive civil society

  12. More needs to be done on…. • Scaling up the model in compulsory schooling • Strengthen the role of students in prevention of school drop out at secondary education • Second chance for drop out students

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