Public Educational Organisations Local Administration Organisations
3. Basic Education Institutions
Basic education institutions are The representatives of local administration
responsible for the provision and organisations are members of the board
service of education to people in that supervises and supports the
local areas. In each educational management of basic education
institution, there is a board supervising institutions.
and supporting its management.
4. ONESQA
The Office for National Education Local administration organisations are
Standards and Quality Assessment responsible for the following:
(ONESQA) is responsible for 1. Developing an internal quality
developing the criteria and methods assurance system in educational
of external quality assessment of institutions.
educational institutions under the 2. Endorsing the results of external
supervision of local administration quality assessment conducted
organisations as well as submitting the by the ONESQA.
report to local administration 3. Improving and developing
organisations. educational institutions as proposed
by the ONESQA.
4.5 Progress of the Transfer of Authority to Local
Administrative Organisations
In 2006, the Council of Ministers approved the implementation
of the Plan to Decentralise Authority to Local Administrative
Organisations. As a result, a system to assess the readiness of local
administrative organisations was established.
Essential preconditions for the transfer include not only
the readiness of local administrative organisations but also the
willingness of school teachers, principals, other personnel and school
council members.
During the transition period, a number of problems were
encountered and the process was temporarily delayed due to the
resistance to change of teachers’ organisations. However, the transfer
of schools from the Ministry of Education to local administrative
organisations was successful to a certain degree.
In order to facilitate the decentralisation of power in
educational administration from the Ministry to local administrative