 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| Manifesto fails to reflect teacher demands |
| Bratislava, 22.04.2016 |
|
| The Education Ministry is talking about big reforms, but experts consider the programme statement vague.
“The largest education reform in the past 25 years” is what Education Minister Peter Plavčan wants to prepare during the following tenure of the new government. The programme statement the government adopted at its April 13 session however lacks more specific instructions how to achieve this goal, according to experts.
Moreover, the representatives of teachers and trade unions disagree with the financial framework for education, saying the funds will not be enough. Plavčan, on the other hand, considers the sum “a necessary minimum” to launch reforms.
“Education is a big ship; it will be hard to navigate it in right direction and move it, but we don’t want it to remain Titanic,” Plavčan said about the programme statement, as quoted by the TASR newswire.
The government manifesto contains some 50 proposals for education sector, focusing on primary and secondary schools, universities, science and research and life-long education. Though it promises to improve nearly everything in education, there is the difference between the intention and reality, says Robert Chovanculiak, analyst with INESS think tank.
“There is not a problem to find positive proposals, but to find specific methods and solutions to achieve them,” Chovanculiak told The Slovak Spectator.
Also the representatives of teachers consider the promises vague and not binding. As the program manifesto does not contain nearly any of the requirements they voiced during the protests and strike, they returned to the streets in mid-April, saying they are ready to continue to fight for them.
odkaz na stránku |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Address : Euro-Brew Ltd., Hlboká 22, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia
Tel. : +421 33 53 418 53, Fax : +421 33 53 418 52, E-mail : info@eurobrew.sk |
|
|
