Albania's National AI-in-Schools Guidance Sets Privacy Rules for ChatGPT and Gemini Use

On 2 September 2026, Albania's Agency for Quality Assurance of Pre-University Education (ASCAP), under the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, published a national guidance document on the use of artificial intelligence in schools, timed to the start of the 2026-2027 school year. The guidance permits teachers and students across the pre-university system to use tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Full Fact for creating exercises, quizzes, exams, rubrics and feedback, translating texts and correcting grammar, across subjects from Albanian language to mathematics, arts and physical education.
The document frames AI explicitly as an assistive tool that should not replace teachers, and it draws on UNESCO guidance for education policymakers. It sets a specific privacy rule: before any student or teacher work is submitted to an AI tool, names, initials, photographs, school names and other identifying details must be removed. National broadcaster Top Channel reported that the guidance also covers plagiarism prevention and the assessment criteria teachers should use when evaluating AI-assisted student work.
As a policy published only weeks before this review, the guidance has no independent evaluation yet of learning outcomes, compliance rates or enforcement in individual schools. Its value lies in being one of the first system-wide, government-issued rulebooks - rather than an outright ban or an unregulated free-for-all - for classroom AI use in the Western Balkans, with an explicit, checkable privacy safeguard that other education systems could adopt or audit against.

Read the full analysis: https://www.ascap.edu.al/udhezuesi-per-perdorimin-e-inteligjences-artificiale/