Address
Ministry of Education and Sport
Rruga e Durrësit, Nr. 23
ALB-1001 Tiranë
Tel: +355 694098477
E-Mail: Ornela.Koleka@arsimi.gov.al
okoleka@gmail.com
Website
Planning Policy
The school principal has a legal obligation to appoint the supervising teachers 15 days before the start of the school year (Article 66, point 2 of the IAP’s operating regulations). The teachers’ council must also hold its first meeting at least 10 (ten) working days before the start of the school year (Article 64, point 2 of the IAP’s operating regulations). At this meeting, the principal presents the distribution of the teaching load for all teachers, leaving the discussion open for the first grades until August 31, the date when the registration of first grade students closes. At the first meeting, teachers give their opinions on the formation of classes, the teaching schedule, the approximate topics of the regular council meetings, internal professional development activities and other issues discussed at the meeting. The requests are immediately forwarded to the Local Units. Local education units determine the vacancies that are created in educational institutions under their jurisdiction and send these requests to the regional directorates, no later than 7 days from the beginning of the new school year, for the vacancies at the beginning of the school year. The requests are collected by the school directorates. For newly created jobs during the school year, these requests are immediately recorded. The regional directorates forward this request to the National Agency for Pre-university Education, which publishes them on the "Teachers for Albania" Portal.
Please refer to the Regulation on the Functioning of Educational Institutions, the Guidelines for Planning Lessons in Vocational Education and the Guidelines for the "Teachers for Albania" Portal
Udhëzues për planifikimin e mësimit në shkollat profesionale
Udhezimi-nr.-8-date-3.5.2024-Portali-mesues-per-Shqiperine.pdf
Entry to the Profession
The teachers in education institutions must possess the following diploma in the field of education or their equivalents:
- The teachers of pre-school education: university diploma of the first cycle of university studies "Bachelor";
- The teachers of the initial education, the teachers of the low secondary education and the teachers of the gymnasium: second cycle diploma of the university studies.
The teachers of vocational education, holding professional subjects, such as that of the oriented education and the teachers working with disabled students shall have obtained the second cycle diploma in the field of education. The diplomas being equivalent to the above-mentioned diplomas shall be determined upon the instruction of the Minister. The teachers of the initial education and secondary education shall be entitled to practice the profession of the teacher following successfully completing the professional internship and having successfully passed the state exams, as provided for in the Law no 10 171, dated 22.10.2009, "On regulated professions in the Republic of Albania", as amended, and subordinate legal acts, issued for its implementation. The educational institutions, serving for performing the teaching practice of teaching students and professional internship of those having obtained the teacher's diploma shall be selected based on the criteria and procedures determined by the instruction of the Minister.
Interested candidates for the profession of teachers participate in the competition, which takes place in three stages: a) Competition with the personal file; b) through the portal "Teachers for Albania"; c) job selections .
In the first phase, interested candidates for teacher send their personal file for the competition in local educational units, where they want to be employed. The application file submitted to the local educational unit through the postal service, within deadlines set by the local educational unit. Commission after the deadline of receiving applications, assesses the documents submitted by candidates, compiles the list for each profile / subjects and candidates ranked according to points accumulated by the review of files. The ranking starts with the candidate with the most points and follows in descending order. The ranking is public via the official website of the local educational unit, where candidates are identified with personal code. Candidates have the right to appeal the local educational unit regarding the evaluation and ranking.
The candidate, who in the overall standings by profiles / subjects has been ranked with the highest number of points, has the right of choice for vacancies in educational institutions. The candidate with the highest number of points is invited by the committee to select one of the vacancies (full load or partial, temporary or permanent), according to his preference, in the presence of directors of educational institutions where are the job vacancies.
Teachers are appointed by school directors by means of individual contracts that least for one academic year. At the end of this period and following approval of the parent’s council of the respective institution and that of the commission of psychosocial service established by the head of regional education office, school directors can make definitive positioning of teachers.
Induction
The professional internship for the regulated profession of teacher is carried out by all those candidates who meet the criteria set out in Article 57 of Law 69/2012 “On the Pre-University Education System in the Republic of Albania”, as amended. The profile where the candidate will carry out the professional internship for the regulated profession of teacher is related to the first and/or second cycle study program that the candidate has completed. The application for the development of the professional internship for the exercise of the regulated profession of teacher is carried out through the e-albania platform. Candidates have the right to develop the professional internship in one of the three teaching periods.
The Regulation on the Organization and Development of Professional Practices for the Regulated Profession of Teacher was revised in July 2022 and clearly defines all the provisions of this process. The duration of the initial internship of the intern is one teaching period. If the applicant misses more than 30% of the internship time, he must repeat it. If he misses 20-30% of the time, the internship is extended by one month. The Regulation has determined the establishment of an Evaluation Commission by the Regional Directorates, a commission headed by the head of the curriculum monitoring and professional development sector. This commission evaluates within 30 days at the end of the internship with levels (poor, satisfactory, good, very good) that the interns have completed.
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Professional Status
The teaching personnel, being employed on permanent contract and having the respective university qualifications, shall maintain their jobs and be subject to training for updating the profession-related knowledge. This provision is also valid for teachers having completed the 3-year pedagogical higher education, prior to the entry into effect of Bologna system. The teaching personnel, being employed on permanent contract and having completed the secondary pedagogical education or another specialised school in teaching design, such as the secondary schools of music, arts, foreign languages and physical culture and having passed through the three levels of qualification, shall maintain their jobs and be subject to training for updating the profession-related knowledge.
Procedures for appointment and dismissal of teachers are administered by local educational units, educational institutions and representatives of parents and guided by the principles of legality and accountability, as well as the values of professionalism, transparency, merit, equality and the best interests of students. In the public educational institution, for a teacher vacancy, teachers are nominated by the director of an educational institution, with open competition. The competition process for the appointment of teachers is held for all candidates who fulfill the criteria’s established in the applicable legal framework for teaching profession.
The collective labor contract extends its effects to all teaching personnel employed in the public pre-university education system, including primary education teachers, lower secondary education teachers and upper secondary education teachers. The contract is concluded between the management structures of the Ministry of Education and the trade unions representing educational personnel. Based on this collective labor contract, all educational employees who have a job as educational employees in the public sector, they maintain the status of employees with an indefinite duration. The collective labor contract recognizes and reflects all the criteria applied for employment in the public sector and the criteria that must be met by employees. The collective labor contract also determines the criteria that apply in cases of termination of these relationships and the guaranteed benefits. Also, Instruction No. 4 of 2026 clearly defines the criteria for accepting, suspending and dismissing teachers from a job. For more information, you can refer to the link:
https://arsimi.gov.al/newsroom/udhezime-udhezim-nr-4-date-26-02-2026/
Replacement Measures
When a teacher withdraws for health reasons such as birth or other healthcare needs for a short time the director of the education institution (school) in question as a rule replaces that teacher with another teacher or the director. When the absence of the teacher occurs for a long time the replacement procedure is done through the teachers for Albania portal. The absent places are referred to the local offices of pre-university education and they apply those in the portal.
Support measures
During his professional practice, the intern is under the continuous mentoring of the subject teacher. He has professional freedom in implementing the curriculum, but is continuously mentored by the teacher. He is guaranteed the conditions for effective teaching and all opportunities are created for his professional development together with the staff of the school where he carries out his professional practice.
Salaries
Teachers' salaries in Albania range from 70,000 to 104,000 lek per month. Salary Structures include: Position salary or base salary, which for teachers varies depending on their level of qualification and seniority in the job. Qualification allowance: Qualified teachers, specialists and masters benefit from various allowances for their level of qualification, thus increasing their total salary and Seniority allowance: The salary increases by a percentage for each year of work, starting from 0.6% for the first years and reaching up to 1% for the following years. This year, salary indexation was again carried out by 2.5% depending on the position. The changes have impacted different categories of educational institutions and supplementary educational institutions. The financial effects are covered by the budgets of the relevant institutions, approved in the budget law, while for local self-government units, financing comes from budget transfers and their revenues.
Decision 425 of July 2024 determined the new salary structure for teachers.QBZ - Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare
When teachers do extra hours of teaching compared to their yearly planned teaching hours in the contract, supplementary teaching hours are paid based on the legal acts in force. Teachers that work away from their place of residence receive additions to their salaries as predicted by Decision of Council of Minister No.194, dated 22.04.1999 mentioned above. The measure of supplementary payment for teachers that work within the administrative unit of respective RED/EO and that return within the same day at home is done based on respective decisions of local authorities for these payments.
Working Time and Holidays
In pre-university education system the five days working week is executed save for specific agreements between the employed person and the employer.
In basic education (classes 1-9) and in upper secondary education working hours are composed by two components:
- From the daily time during which the employed is at disposal of the employer. In conformity with this request the parties confirm that teachers working in basic education and in upper secondary education are presented at school 20 minutes before the start of the lessons and leave school at the end of the teaching programme which is composed by no more than 6 hours of 60 minutes each per day.
- By the weekly and yearly working norms for each cycle established by guidance of Minister of Education and Sports in consultation with syndicates that signed the respective working contract.
Teaching hours per teacher in pre-school education amounts to 36 hours per week.
Extra hours that teachers executed above their specific norms predicted for in the respective guide of Minister of Education and Sports are paid as supplementary hours.
Extra hours above the norm for teaching activities in week holidays for realization of different teaching activities or for conducting activities predicted for by RED/EO will be paid based on Article 91 point 3 of the Labor code.
The holiday time is composed by weekly holiday and by yearly holidays. Weekly holidays include Saturday and Sunday while yearly holidays are predicted by Article 92 point 2 of the Labor Code and respective decision of Council of Ministers. Based on the above mentioned dispositions yearly holidays cannot be more than 56 working days including summer holidays and national holidays.
School personnel (director and teaching personnel) of the preschool Education Institutions have 32 days annual holidays. For purposes of holidays, working time including also the time of temporary disability at work.
Promotion, Advancement
Candidates for qualification are employees of educational institutions, public and private, who have teachers diploma, according to prescribed criteria and applicable national law. Subject of qualification procedures are all teachers, that meet the following conditions for seniority of work in education: a) at least 5 years working for the qualification category of "qualified teacher"; b) at least 10 years working for the category of qualification "teacher specialist" and at least 5 years of work after receiving the category of teachers qualified "; c) at least 20 years working for the category of qualification" master teacher "and at least l0 working years after receiving the category of specialist teachers. "
Starting from 2014-2015 onwards, teachers who met the above criteria are eligible to apply for the category of the qualification if they have completed at least 3 days of training in academic year, which are equivalent to 18 hours reflected in training with six (6) credits. If a candidate does not participate in this qualification process or do not obtain the qualification is entitled to participate next year.
Mobility and Transfers
A teacher appointed with an indefinite employment contract who wishes to make a parallel move within the same Local Education Office (ZVAP) where he is employed, within the month of June, uploads to the Teachers for Albania portal the documentation according to the appendix to the Instruction no. 8 dated 3/05/2024. Every teacher with an indefinite contract has the right to make a parallel move to another school. Likewise, every educational institution, school, sets up commissions at the school level to evaluate the files of teachers employed with an indefinite contract, whose teaching hours have been reduced due to the number of students. The requests are forwarded to the local offices. The applied files are evaluated by the Commissions established at the ZVAP in accordance with the conditions of this instruction and are sent to the Commissions of the Regional Educational Directorates, which publish them on their official websites. Teachers have three working days to appeal the ranking. After the appeal, the final ranking is published again on the official websites of the Regional Directorates.
The vacancies created for each Local Educational Office are initially offered to teachers who have resulted without burden and then to teachers who have expressed interest in parallel movements.
Udhezimi-nr.-8-date-3.5.2024-Portali-mesues-per-Shqiperine.pdf
Dismissals
In accordance with the Regulation on the functioning of educational institutions, the Director of the IA initiates disciplinary procedures for the removal of a teacher from the public institution of pre-university education in the following cases:
a) has forged official documents and made a false statement in the application process;
b) has exercised physical violence against students or employees of the institution;
c) has sexually harassed students or employees of the institution;
ç) has embezzled financial or material funds of the institution;
d) has organized paid courses with students he teaches and with students of the IA;
dh) has organized paid courses with students outside the IA, when he is not licensed to exercise this private activity;
e) violates the Code of Ethics of Teachers in the institution;
ë) there is a failure of his students, according to letter “c”, point 2, article 60, of this regulation;
f) there is a recommendation in the monitoring and evaluation report;
g) has committed passive corruption;
gj) has committed violations of the provisions of the Labor Code and the legislation in force;
h) has a written recommendation from the school disciplinary committee.
The procedures for the removal of a teacher from a public institution of pre-university education are carried out according to the provisions of the Labor Code and the legislation in force. Udhër Nr. 31, datë 28.01.2020 – Rregullore për IAP - Agjencia e Sigurimit të Cilësisë së Arsimit Parauniversitar
Retirement/Pensions
In accordance with the Regulation on the functioning of educational institutions, the termination of a teacher's employment relationship with a public institution of pre-university education occurs:
a) when he resigns;
b) when he reaches retirement age;
c) when he becomes incapable of performing his duties due to physical or mental reasons, proven by a forensic medical report;
ç) when he is sentenced by a final court decision, for matters related to the exercise of the teaching profession;
d) when a disciplinary measure of dismissal is taken;
dh) when the IA does not offer a subject teaching load.
The employee who works in education institutions may finish the labor relations at his request or the employer, as long as that the employee has met the conditions that contain the provisions and the innate right to full retirement. In this case, in order to do not cause disturbances in the learning process, especially in relation to students, employers are prohibited to terminate the employment relationships of employees due to the completion of the retirement age in the last 2 months of the school year.