An inspiring visit took place at “Nazmi Rushiti” Vocational School in Dibër, with participation of Séverine Donnet-Descartes, Director for Eastern Europe at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Ruth Huber, Ambassador of Switzerland to Albania, Philipp Arnold, Deputy Head of Mission, and Argjentina Grazhdani, Country Director for Albania at Swisscontact.
During the visit, the school presented the significant transformation achieved in less than one year of cooperation with the Skills for Jobs Albania (S4J) project and the Transfer Agents, demonstrating rapid and measurable progress across several key areas of institutional development.
Concrete results were highlighted in strengthening collaboration with businesses, improving the quality of students’ work-based learning experiences, digitalising school processes through the MësoVET platform, and developing a graduate tracer system that enables more data-driven planning and increased institutional accountability.
Another important achievement has been the strengthening of the capacities of practical training teachers through the involvement of professionals from the private sector, further reinforcing the link between the school and the labour market while improving the quality of teaching within the dual VET system.
The school has also made important progress in institutional communication and in promoting its educational offer to students, the local community, and employers, positioning itself as a more market-responsive vocational education institution.
These results reflect S4J’s implementation approach, which is based on the work of Transfer Agents embedded within schools and on systematically building bridges of cooperation with the private sector, fostering sustainable change within the vocational education system.
