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Students Drop Out Parental involvement in
KosovoAferdita Spahiu, UNICEF Kosovo
20 October, Geneva
Girls in rural areas
Girls after grade 9
Roma, Ashkalija and Egyptian
Boys in upper secondary education
Gender Review in Education 2002Who drops out from school?
Poverty
Lack of perspective
Distance to school
Mentality
Education level of parents………
Causal Analysis 2004
Parental involvement in schools
Parent Teachers Councils and schools engaged on students drop out
Child Friendly Schools
a student who leaves school before completing a certain education level or a student who leaves without returning, during a given school year.
Definition of drop out
Accuracy of the data
Estimations
Surveys
National Statistics and Data!
Model built on findings of a survey
Five municipalities
Specifics of areas/regions
Parent Teacher Councils’ model
School drop out prevention reponse team
Mechanism to address the issue at the level of school and community.
Resource kit
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
Early warning
1. Contact the school drop out team
2. Action plan
3. Implementation of the action plan
Three steps action
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 PTAs active civil society
Results
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
More needs to be done on….