Equity : an overall approach

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Equity an overall approach

• The Flemish case
• A stakeholders perspective

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Background

• The education system has shown a high level of
  performance in PISA
• BUT
• Great difference between best performing and
  weakest pupils
• Great difference between schools
• New stimulus to close the gap of inequalities in
  education

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Opinion of stakeholders

• Vlor was quite positive on the global policy
  concept

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Recent policy lines

• Stimulate participation of early childhood
  education
• A new model for financing compulsory education
• At school level
• Reducing costs of schooling for parents
• A new élan for attendance of higher education
  (introducing output oriented financing)
• A new framework for adult education

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Early childhood education

• Strong tradition (participation at 2,5 years) -
• BUT underparticipation of underprivileged and
  migrant preschoolers
• New action plan centered on
• Smaller groups
• More sensibilisation to participate

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Towards a more mainstream approach in compulsory
education

• End 80-90 stimuli for schools to enhance
  chances of migrant children (onderwijsvoorrangsbel
  eid)
• conditional and additional financing on basis of
  action plans
• Midst 90 equal chances policy (migrant
  children, underprivileged children)
• conditional and additional financing on basis of
  indicators
• 2007 integration in the mainstream financial
  model
• social-economic and social-cultural indicators
  (education level of the mother, entitlement to a
  school grant, language, neighbourhood)
• special needs not yet integrated (current debate
  on SEN).

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Advice of stakeholders

• New financial model based on pupils characterics
  offers a good basis for a more diverse classroom
• Management building capacity of schools (need for
  transparance and predictability, overhead fixed
  costs, autonomy)

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Free primary education and schoolcosts

• Maximum bill for schoolcosts
• Basic school activities have to be free of
  charges for parents (both in public schools as in
  subsidised schools)

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Advice stakeholders

• Link between free education and financial model

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Higher education a new democratisation

• Integration of underprivileged groups is an
  important objective a reward for a successful
  learning trajectory (diplomabonus) special
  funding
• financing model is a mixt input / output based
  system (student characteristics such as
  entitlement for grants, students with SEN,
  students at work)

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Advice of education council

• A new democratisation is necessary
• Measures are sometimes contradictory