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The 2024 budget as an electoral promise with medium and long-term plans

2023-11-02 10:09:15Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The 2024 budget as an electoral promise with medium and long-term plans

The end of the year, as always, turns into a debate arena for the next year's draft budget, the fiscal package and all the obligations arising from it. From past experiences, it has almost always happened that interest groups have a project in hand to reflect their changes, but nothing is taken into consideration. The same thing is expected to happen this year as well.

Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced a tour throughout Albania to present it. What and to whom will he present? Increase in wages, decrease in public debt, increase in investments? These will be the points in which the populism of his presentation will be maintained, since the specialists in the field and if they will be present will be spectators and not advisors?

But what stands out about the 2024 project? Ok, specialists in television studios or in written analysis will capture a side of it, the one that interests you more or the one that is served visibly in the project.

There is a whole chapter in this draft budget where it talks about the long-term strategy of social protection, including vocational education.

Let's stop at the last one. The draft budget talks about a National Employment and Skills strategy 2023-2030, which is said to be the main policy document in the field of employment and skills development in the country with the main objective in the field of VET, "Increasing the level of skills of women and men of working age".

What are the strategic objectives of this period and is there any item in the budget for 2024?

Development of the offer of Vocational Education and Training (VET) more relevant, flexible, governed based on facts and which guarantees continuity;

Strengthening the quality assurance and development mechanisms in the VET system;

Systematic and continuous involvement of the private sector in the governance, development and provision of VET;

Fostering inclusive lifelong learning opportunities;

Recognition of previous non-formal and informal learning;

Digital and green transformation of the VET system.

These are the main points of the long-term strategy and in the report it is said that this education is offered in 30 professional education providers. These institutions offer 26 educational courses, 87 professional profiles and the total number of students in professional education for the year 2022-2023 is 15,141 students, of which 2,344 are girls. But it is also said that the trend of registrations continues to be constant in recent years and between the lines it is accepted that the number of students who complete the 9th grades from year to year decreases. But the argument that the number of people enrolled in this education is constant in absolute terms shows an increase.

These marked and a priority in the medium term that is more about words than sound in the budget. We are talking here about the period 2024-2026, which states modernization of the infrastructure of public VET providers, in accordance with the principles of the green economy and digital transformation, or consolidation of the legal and institutional context for a model of budget allocation and disbursement for providers. AFP public, and other general points like these.

What is intended to be achieved in this period according to the draft budget are:

Increasing access to Secondary Vocational Education aiming to attract 20% of students following the cycle of Secondary Education in 2026, from the 17.7% expected to reach the end of 2023;

Increasing the percentage of employees after graduating from vocational secondary schools to 58% of the total who complete their studies in 2026, compared to 47.5% in 2023;

Increasing the number of students coming from rural areas who attend vocational secondary schools, from 43% of the total in 2023 to 46% of the total in 2026;

Increasing the number of Roma and Egyptian students attending secondary vocational schools from 670 students in 2023 to 800 students in 2026.

But is this enough? Do words make Vocational Education, or more of an orientation and financing strategy so that young people go towards vocational education. When our country approaches more secondary services the need and duty of education is more funding in this sector so that there are more service professionals than barristers lawyers.


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