Western Balkans Competitiveness Outlook 2024

• • Skills cluster - Key progress and remaining challenges since CO2021 Progress Education Policy Challenges Improvements in higher educational attainment Better student performance in PISA (from 2015-2018) Strengthened focus on secondary education (concept for secondary education of adults; new draft law on secondary education) Efforts to improve the VET system (planned new law on VET; regional VET centres) • Decreasing public spending on education and training . Lack of regular national • . assessments at key levels of education Limited progress on adjusting VET legal framework to labour market needs Low participation rates in adult learning (2.6% in 2020) 18

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