The study found that establishment of an educational
administrative body or the so-called “Board of Education” resulted
in effective decentralisation. In this regard, such a body should be
enriched by participation from stakeholders, political neutrality,
educational professionalism, and self-management. Therefore, the
research suggested that a Board of Education should be established
in local administrative organisations to increase their efficiency in
rendering educational services which lead to quality improvement
of education.
After the evaluation of the First Plan to Decentralise the Power
to Local Administrative Organisations, the Council of Ministers
approved the Second Plan in 2008. The Second Plan to Decentralise
the Power to Local Administrative Organisations divided the task
of providing education into two following groups:
1) The first group is concerned with formal basic education,
consisting of pre-primary education, primary education, and
secondary education which includes lower and upper secondary
education of both general and vocational streams; and