Low interest in enrollment at Tetovo’s vocational schools

Despite the fact that labor market needs and orientation toward trades are continuously increasing, vocational secondary schools in Tetovo are facing a shortage of students.

The lowest level of interest during the first two enrollment periods was recorded at the Economics School and the Textile School.

“At the Economics School, unfortunately, we have a small number of admitted students, around forty, and at the Textile Secondary School, so far only 44 students who met the 45-point criterion have been admitted. There, we will ask the Ministry to lower the points requirement so that students who did not meet the points criterion can enroll,” said Nazmi Dauti from the Education Sector in the Municipality of Tetovo.

On the other hand, the most preferred field remains medicine. All places for the nurse profile were filled in the first enrollment period, while more than 200 students applied for the cosmetology program for only 30 available places.

“In the first enrollment period, we had somewhere over 600 applications in Albanian, Macedonian and Turkish. Meanwhile, in the second period, nearly 200 applications, but very few of them met the conditions for the 70-point programs. Of them, only around 20 were admitted,” said Malësore Ramadani, Director of SH M M “Nikolla Shtejn”.

According to Ramadani, there are still available places in the pharmacy technician, dental assistant and gynecology programs, but the points criterion will remain the same and there will be no reduction.

After medicine, the highest level of interest in Tetovo is in the “Kiril Pejçinoviq” gymnasium, although some programs still have available places for enrollment in the remaining admission periods./Alsat/