Education fund soars to ALL 40 bln while 2018 budget presented for public dicussion

The Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth is one of the government-focused sectors to invest next year.

For 2018, based on the draft budget already published on the Parliament’s website, there are around ALL 40 billion set aside for education, 5 billion more than a year ago.

Specifically, ALL 522 million will go for the development of Sports and Youth, while ALL 7 billion is a fund for university education.

Some of the expenditures will go for free textbooks of about 33,000 pre-school pupils, from the first to the fifth grade.

But also for the increase of up to 20% of the schools designated as Community Centers.

The budget provides for the provision of internet service in every school in the Albanian territory.

Another goal that is to be achieved through this budget is also the construction of new vocational education schools to which the government has paid special attention in the last mandate, as a need for the qualification of young people in professions with high demand in the current job market.

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