TIRANA, January 29/ATA/ Minister of Education Mirela Kumbaro stated today that 140 pre-university education textbooks are in the process of being revised, among them 44 are in foreign languages.
During a meeting with the staff of the Quality Assurance Agency for Pre-University Education (ASCAP), Kumbaro said that there is being done a voluminous work, with the best experts, for 140 textbooks that are being revised for the next school year, including 44 textbooks in foreign languages, but also for completely new textbooks such as Citizenship and Albanian Language in grades I, VI and X.
“It is up to this agency the quality of the school, the preparation of all curricula, subjects, the education of our children, but also the training of our children’s teachers”, said Kumbaro.
The minister affirmed that after a 10-year period, it is high time to revise the new curricula in pre-university education.
“There are 140 textbooks that will be revised; it is a work that does not have a schedule. It is a work that is done by the best subject and curriculum experts in Albania. This year, for the first time, we will introduce new subjects, such as Civic Education for the first, sixth and tenth grades”, she continued. According to Kumbaro, there will also be an update in the Albanian language subject and information technology subjects from the first grade of primary school, up to the secondary school-leaving. /e.i/a.f/r.e/p.s./
