Education Policy Program Lithuania

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Education Policy Program Lithuania

• Virginija Budiene
• OSF Lithuania

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Monitoring of Educational Policy

• Governance of Education
• Regional Policy of Education
• Financing of Education
• Quality and Equal Opportunities in Education
• International surveys on education in Lithuania
• Education Forum

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Governance of Education

• European Context for education
• History of educational policy through educational
  statistics
• The cost of pupils non-attendance and school-year
  repetition
• Regional differences in education
• Compulsory education. An overview
• Analysis of student, teacher and school database.
  Teacher supply and demand

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Regional Policy of Education

• Capacity building
• Pilot project of regional policy development
• Education policy summer/winter schools for LEA
  officials
• Regional demographical analysis

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Financing of Education

• Analysis on aspects of educational funding
  Cheque, Vouchers
• Effective education financing and decision
  making some options for reform

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Quality and Equal Opportunities in Education

• Do Lithuanian pupils have equal opportunities to
  obtain high quality secondary education?
• Equity issues in basic education
• Development of labour competitiveness at access
  to EU

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International surveys on education in Lithuania

• TIMSS
• CIVIC
• PIRLS
• PISA

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Education Forum

• Dissemination of Discussion Papers
• Discussions
• Media coverage
• Publications
• Presentation to the high-level decision makers

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Public Policy ProjectsOSF Lithuania

• www.politika.osf.lt

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Partners and Resources

• Education Policy Centre, Vilnius University
• National Examination Centre
• Centre of Information technology, MOE
• National experts
• International institutions and experts
• HE representatives
• Research Institutes
• Student Organisations

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Change of policy environment

• Evidence, the fall of mythology
• One language
• Public awareness
• Decision makers privatise the problem
• Independent watchdog

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Obstacles and lessons learned

• Initially empty market /create demand
• Academic research / policy analysis
• Distance / communication culture
• Rhetoric /reality
• Proactive /grant competition
• Conclusions, recommendations, scenarios/ position
• Share selling/ future