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….