Demand and Supply in Secondary Education in Albania

The book gives the situation of the secondary education in Albania. The net enrollment of students in secondary education varies according to areas, regions and prefectures. In the Central and Mountain Region of Albania, in addition to low economic developments, the educational attainment of the population is as lower as and more inequal than in other regions. The results of the models indicate that non-registration of students in the secondary is different not only geographically but also under the influence of the economic situation in the student's family, educational infrastructure, parents education, number of children in the family, lack of parent in the family; all of them risk factors. A student living in the Central Region and Mountain Region of the country, but not only, having a difficult economic situation, the school that is far away, low parents education, the absence of one or both parents in the family, has more chances not to be enrolled in high school after completing 9 years of basic education. The education is influenced by factors related with the demand and suppy side.