Education is the most important"raw material" of Kosovo A future-oriented education policy can not remain an isolated factor in politics and must be seen as a priority matter of public tasks . Education policy has to fulfill a variety of expectations and tasks and, especially in countries such as Kosovo, is a key element for the country's further development into a social welfare state based on the European model. Therefore, it is important to use all the resources of the country as e ectively as possible. To the same extent as the economy requires appropriately skilled labor at all levels of the workplace, all young people need to have the chances for their integration into a functioning and e ective work environment according to their talents and possibilities . A one-sided prioritization of certain educational programs and levels as well as an increasingly private­profit-oriented educational o er inevitably and evidently leads to immense deficits in the labor market . The consequences are, on the one hand, extremely high levels of youth unemployment and little chance of(re-) entering the workplace for older people who have lost their jobs, and on the other hand, a growing shortage of skilled workers , in both academic and non-academic economic sectors. In addition, there is a steadily increasing urban-rural gap with increasing migration tendencies . This can only be counteracted with an integral concept that combines education content and o erings with the current and future needs of a strategically oriented economic development . For this purpose a redefinition of labor market policy as a bridge between(vocational) education and the economy is needed, which with a competent career guidance and targeted training programs proactively ensures that the o erings of qualifications adapts to the needs of a modern economy. 3