TIRANA, Jan 5 /ATA/ – Adequate state budget funding has been allocated to support a series of investment projects designed to transform and modernize educational infrastructure, significant renovation, reconstruction, refurbishment and extension of schools and universities across Albania.
Prime Minister Edi Rama took to the social media on Sunday to share Ministry of Education data on investments in educational infrastructure across the country, underlining the new educational facilities and environments have been constructed to meet contemporary European standards and infrastructure for habitability and environmental comfort and provide spaces for optimum education.
The government head also said that important investment projects were implemented on construction of 100 new schools and sport grounds in 2024.
He added that work continues on construction of 40 more new schools, which are set to complete in 2025. Rama also noted that some 216 smart labs were installed in schools all over Albania in 2024.
PM Rama highlighted that investment projects are planned on construction of new Civil and Construction Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Architecture; the Faculty of Geology and Mining, the Geology and Mining Museum; Faculty of Food Biotechnology at Agricultural University in Tirana; new Food and Veterinary Clinic at the Agricultural University; Animal Anatomy Laboratory; the Faculty of Professional Studies at the University of Durrës; the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Elbasan.
The 2025 state budget for the Ministry of Education and Sports is estimated at 62.02 billion lek, earmarked to support construction and reconstruction of around 70 to 80 primary education schools, featuring around 1000 to 1200 classrooms and labs, benefiting over 20 000 to 25 000 students and around 1500 to 2000 teaching staff.
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