TIRANA The Youth Movement for Integration organized an open conversation with high school graduates on the topic "A Chance for High School Graduates", where suggestions or proposals on the State Matura were discussed and given.
Present at this meeting were the Chairwoman of the LRI, Floida Kërpaçi, the MP of the SMI, Kejdi Mehmetaj, the Deputy Minister of Education and Sports, Nora Malaj, the Deputy Rector of the University of Tirana, Shezai Rrokaj, and the Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the Agricultural University of Tirana, Luigj Turmalaj.
During discussions with attendees, the Chair of LRI, Floida Kërpaçi, announced that a resolution will be drafted to be submitted to the Ministry of Education and Sports to insist that this year's State Matura be held with higher standards.
"I want to express the full willingness of the LRI and the LSI to pursue together the addressing of these topics that we discussed. We will draft a resolution that we will submit to the Ministry of Education and Sports and we will insist that the State Matura this year be carried out with the best possible standards and offer a chance for all of us who are here, but also for high school graduates throughout Albania. I want to close with my full guarantee that we will fight for an education system that offers equal opportunities for all high school graduates. On this journey, we will continue with full conviction and will fight even harder to increase our accountability but also to demand more so that all high school graduates, all students, have more chances and more opportunities", - declared Ms. Kërpaçi.
Meanwhile, SMI MP, Kejdi Mehmetaj, praised the engagement of young people in politics as a way to change something good for the community and for all their peers. Ms. Mehmetaj promised that the issues raised by the graduates will be raised at all institutional levels.
"All high school students of the LSI and LRI do not seek to have a public commitment to benefit their small and personal interest, but do so to change something good for the community and for all their peers. This shows that every day more and more the need for young people to engage in politics is undisputed and very necessary. We should raise the issues raised by you today at all levels, including in Parliament, whether through interpellation, or even through direct communication as an institution of Parliament with the Ministry. For us, it is important that high school graduates do not go through ordeals of suffering or anxiety, but that their lives are safe and settled where you want, but also where you deserve to go, and that this entire process is transparent", - said Ms. Kejdi Mehmetaj in her speech.
The Vice-Rector of the University of Tirana, Shezai Rrokaj, emphasized that high school graduates faced a real ordeal last year due to a flawed law and that this is an extremely big problem.
"Our students have become experimental test beds for the ignorance of those who govern to find simple systems. I am very touched by an ordeal that starts in January and barely ends in December, and for what? To get into school. This is an extremely big problem. The State Matura began and it also included university admission, which should not have been confused. LSI has been critical of the law and we said that we would be very attentive during its implementation. What we suspected and what we had said, turned out to be defective last year," declared Mr. Shezai Rrokaj.
At the meeting, the Deputy Minister of Education and Sports, Nora Malaj, also spoke, saying that all requests and proposals from high school graduates will be forwarded to the relevant authorities so that they are included in the ministry's instructions.
"All the requests that you have brought, as well as the other requests of the high school graduates that have come through the tables that we have held with all interest groups throughout this time, I will present to the State High School Committee to inform them and to guide them. And not only to guide them, but to solve each problem on a case-by-case basis so that every high school graduate has a chance, every chance is deserved, every merit has meritocracy and every assessment goes to the knowledge of our capitals", - said the Deputy Minister of Education and Sports.
(mk/BalkanWeb)
