Axhemi, Sokol

Prof.Dr.Sokol AXHEMI
University of Tirana, Department of Geography

In the overall framework of the social factors that influence the general development of the population in a particular territory, a special role belongs to the education system. In Albania the importance of this system is being emphasized in this particular moment as an important priority in the framework of realizing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement with EU. Taking this is an initial point, there should be a lot of value in the role that this system plays, and at the same time a maximal importance should be shown toward the main components of this system. The education system in Albania shows some special features and characteristics that are closely connected with the development stages of the society itself through different periods. Until democracy and pluralism started to take place, which is till 1990, the education system in Albania was 100 % a state offered service. There were no legal space that could have made possible for the existence of the non-public education or similarly called private education, which could have made possible the realization of the multilateral interests, that of the business and those intellectuals and at the same could have created different opportunities for a bigger access toward the knowledge for different educational categories of people. At the beginning of democracy in Albania many groups of people were open and interested toward this direction, which influenced in the intensification of attracting the attention from the state authorities in order to take steps toward its development. It was merely the beginning of the 1990s, which also as in other fields opened a green light for the beginning and the development of the private alternative in the education sector. Below we will try to submit some aspects which have to do with the progress of the this education system in Albania, the problems it was associated with, the innovation that brought in the Albanian education life, its geographic distribution together with the factors that have influenced for this.