Inter-governmental Roles in the Delivery of Educational Services (Hungary)

 Contents

Contents

• 1. Foreword
• 2. Shared Responsibilities in Hungarian Public Education: a Description
  2.1 The Basic Characteristics of the System
  2.2 The Evolution of the System: Main Stages
  2.3 The National Level Responsibility
  2.3.1 Background
  2.3.2 Responsibility at the National (Central) Level
  2.3.3 Financing
  2.4 The Regional Level
  2.4.1 Background
  2.4.2 The System of Responsibilities at the Regional Level
  2.4.2.1 The County Governments
  2.4.2.2 The Regional Bodies of State Administration
  2.4.3 Financing at the Regional Level
  2.5 The Local and the Institutional Levels
  2.5.1 Background
  2.5.2 Responsibility at the Local (Municipal) Level
  2.5.2.1 The Obligation to Provide Services
  2.5.2.2 General Regulatory Tasks
  2.5.2.3 Tasks Concerning the Personnel
  2.5.2.4 Tasks Concerning the Curricula
  2.5.2.5 Tasks Concerning Administration and Legal Control
  2.5.2.6 Tasks Concerning Quality Control
  2.5.3 Responsibility at the Institutional Level
  2.5.3.1 Responsibility Concerning the Personnel
  2.5.3.2 Responsibility Concerning Educational Content
  2.5.3.3 Responsibility Concerning the Operation of the Institution
  2.5.4 Financing and Financial Management at the Local and Institutional Levels
  2.5.4.1 Financing at the Local Level
  2.5.4.2 Financial Management at the Institutional Level
  2.6 Other Actors
  2.6.1 Consultative Bodies at the Various Levels
  2.6.1.1 The National Level
  2.6.1.2 The Regional Level
  2.6.1.3 The Local Level
  2.6.1.4 The Institutional Level
  2.6.2 The Various Actors
  2.6.2.1 The Professional Organisations of Teachers
  2.6.2.2 Teachers’ Trade Unions
  2.6.2.3 The Federations of the Local Governments
  2.6.2.4 Other Non-governmental Organisations
  2.6.2.5 The Churches
  2.6.2.6 The Parents
  2.6.2.7 The Students
  2.6.2.8 The Actors of the Economic Sphere
  2.6.2.9 National and Ethnic Minorities
  2.6.2.10 Foreign Organisations
  2.6.3 The Role of the Other Actors in Financing
• 3. The Problems of the System: an Analysis
  3.1 Conceptual Framework
  3.1.1 What the Conceptual Framework Includes
  3.1.2 The Objectives of Public Education
  3.1.3 Functions and Fields to be Analysed
  3.1.4 Problems that arise from the system of shared responsibility
  3.2 The Problems of Related to Different Functions or Areas
  3.2.1 Teachers, and personnel policies in general
  3.2.2 The Contents of Education
  3.2.3 School Infrastructures
  3.2.4 Enrolments and Student Flow
  3.2.5 Quality Assurance
  3.2.6 Financing and Financial Administration
• 4. Possible answers to the challenges: Recommendations
  4.1 Teachers and Personnel Policy
  4.1.1 Strategic responsibility at the minister’s level
  4.1.2 Statistics and information system
  4.1.3 Regional planning and teacher employment
  4.1.4 Achievement and pay
  4.1.5 Social agreements
  4.1.6 The non-pedagogical staff
  4.1.7 Communication and learning
  4.2 The Content of Education
  4.2.1 The requirements for the centrally disseminated curricular programmes
  4.2.2 The infrastructure of programme development
  4.2.3 Assessment of the programmes
  4.2.4 Requirements for school level programmes
  4.2.5 The system of experts
  4.2.6 The responsibilities of the maintainer
  4.2.7 Publicity
  4.2.8 Regional planning
  4.2.9 Communication and learning
  4.3 School Infrastructures
  4.3.1 Regional development and sectoral co-operation
  4.3.2 The development of planning and resource-allocation
  4.3.3 The development of standards
  4.3.4 Co-operation between the settlements
  4.3.5 Supporting local task financing
  4.3.6 Communication and learning
  4.4 Enrolments, Student Flows
  4.4.1 Responsibilities concerning equity
  4.4.2 Citizen’s basic rights
  4.4.3 The elaboration of basic standards
  4.4.4 Horizontal movements within the system
  4.4.5 The transparency and coherence of the school system
  4.4.6 The connection between education and economy
  4.4.7 Career-orientation
  4.4.8 A strategy of support for those who fail
  4.4.9 Communication and learning
  4.5 Quality Assurance
  4.5.1 The sectoral strategy for the assurance of quality
  4.5.2 The institutional conditions of evaluation and quality assurance
  4.5.3 The national standards of institution and programme assessment
  4.5.4 Maintainer responsibility and interest
  4.5.5 Professional support
  4.5.6 Quality assurance intervention
  4.5.7 Emphasised development of certain special areas
  4.5.8 Communication and learning
  4.6 Financing and financial administration
  4.6.1 An inter-sectoral financing policy
  4.6.2 The development of the standards
  4.6.3 Regional planning and development
  4.6.4 An information and statistics system
  4.6.5 A system of target financing
  4.6.6 Communication and learning
• 5. Summary

Written by Éva Balázs, Gábor Halász, Anna Imre, Judit Moldován, Mária Nagy

National Institute of Public Education
Budapest

January 1999

Translated by Katalin Kovács