“EDUCATION” Problems and Challenges of Youth in Education Poor and low quality education at all ISCED levels Shortcomings in the legislative and regulatory system lacks in implementation Curricula sometimes even promising- but never properly implemented No money- no development for education No proper information about education policy for pupils Lack of adequate school infrastructure – and exclusiveness for special needs Low hygienic and technical standards No or only bad equipment No didactics – poor contents Wrong and poor Textbooks Theory but no or only few practice Unqualified teachers- not credible professors Killing creativity kills perspectives in future working life Teachers not because of passion but because of party membership The disregarded individual and social development Discrimination is an all-day experience No orientation on the needs of a democratic society Lacking of early development for professional orientation Also career advisory is missing The sanctioning budgetary formula No budgetary decentralization Education is an elementary right – no charges or payments. Requests Commitment from the mobilized stakeholders Good planning and strategic thinking and correct implementation of the legislation Investment in capital and ethics Innovation/Critical thinking/ Creativity Enhanced professionalism of the teachers/ professors Awareness-raising and comprehensive social approach Early categorization for career orientation Increase and decentralization of the budget 1 International Standard Classification of Education Recommendations Increase the level of cooperation, recognition of roles and of responsibilities of each and every stakeholder Introducing of suitable reforms and use of the state authority in a correct way for the implementation and interpretation of regulations Creation of basic human conditions and investments in the much needed school infrastructure Application of enhanced contemporary methodology in teaching/ no tolerance to denials Training, licensing, monitoring, sanctioning of teachers/professors Providing of equal and comprehensive opportunities/ merit based sanctioning of discrimination Enhancement of professional schools and early detection of the interest of the country in professions Review and division/ strategic growth of the state budget for education/ implementation of the legislative initiative for the decentralization/ changing of the application of the budgetary formula in education 7