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