Serbian Education Minister Mladen Sarcevic on Thursday accused the Albanian national minority’s representative body of obstructing efforts to secure textbooks for Albanian school children.

Poor working conditions, insufficient space, reduced hours and work in shifts, transportation of students, delivery of books is some of the burdens on the education in central Kosovo, KIM radio reported.

However, the quality of children's education depends mostly on the teachers, agree the participants in the education debate held at the Civic Energy Center in Gracanica (CEC).

The Pristina University with the seat in Mitrovica North was, is and will be part of the educational system of the Republic of Serbia, and there is no compromise about it, said Rade Grbic, Rector of the University.

The Serbian List MP in the Assembly of Kosovo, Igor Simic says that none of the Serbian List MPs will vote on a law that would allow the inclusion of that university into the Kosovo education system.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo published yesterday a report which assesses the access to pre-university education for non-majority communities in Kosovo. The report, Communities’ Access to Pre-University Education in Kosovo, covers the period from 2014 to 2017 and looks into the provision of education in the majority and community languages.

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Kosovo's Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Shyqiri Bytyqi, said that the Serbian schools in Kosovo continue to implement the system of the Republic of Serbia, as well as that they do not submit reports to the said ministry, Belgrade based daily Blic reports, quoting the Pristina's portal Telegrafi.

Bytyqi claimed that attempts were made to integrate communities, but that Serbian schools continue to operate under the system of Serbia.

The sudden announcement of Pristina that soon may start talks on the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), for number of Serbs who work in institutions such as the judiciary, health and education has created the fear of falling "into the hands" of Kosovo's systems.