Kosovo

This report aims to identify barriers, needs, and potential opportunities for Kosovo to digitally transform its basic education system to strengthen efficiency and improve student performance in foundational skills (including digital skills). The rest of the report is structured as follows. Chapter 1 offers a brief introduction, and Chapter 2 delves in greater detail into the essential education context, including recent reforms, learning outcomes, and overall governance. Chapter 3 presents the country and sector vision for a digital strategy. Chapter 4 details the methodological approach for this study, which unfolds over the two following chapters. Chapter 5 presents the DISA (Digital Skills Analysis Deep Dive), and Chapter 6 presents the EDRA (Education Digital Readiness Assessment), followed by a synthesis of key recommendations and actions in Chapter 7 and complemented by a series of relevant annexes. The annexes include a detailed summary of recommendations (Annex A), a short background on the basic education system in the country (Annex B), the education strategy for 2022-2026 (Annex C), detailed EDRA methodology and framework (Annex D), and the stakeholder mapping (Annex D), as well as a glossary of key terms (Annex E). For technical audiences, reviewing the detailed methodology described in Annex D as a prerequisite to reviewing the EDRA analysis in Chapter 6 may be helpful