Better Financing : Stronger Outcomes - A Public Sector Expenditure Review for the Education Sector in Poland
This report analyzes the public expenditures of the education sector in Poland, with special interest in uncovering trends overtime, establishing international comparisons to benchmark Poland's fiscal efforts in education, and linking those ex...
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| Format: | Education Sector Review |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000334955_20101019041502 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3201 |
| Summary: | This report analyzes the public
expenditures of the education sector in Poland, with special
interest in uncovering trends overtime, establishing
international comparisons to benchmark Poland's fiscal
efforts in education, and linking those expenditures to the
outcomes of the education system. The report then presents a
set of concrete policy options to improve the effectiveness
and the efficiency of the education expenditures in Poland.
The report highlights areas where improvement in the quality
of expenditures can be achieved. For example, while
Poland's student population in primary and secondary
education continues to fall, the number of teachers has not
followed the same trend as the demographic shift in the
student population. There are inflexibilities in the
management and deployment of teachers that have made this
adjustment difficult. Incentives for local governments,
which manage basic education, to quickly adjust the teaching
force to demographic changes by consolidating schools and
classrooms would liberate significant resources to increase
the availability of financial resources to be used in
non-recurrent, quality-enhancing investments in the
education sector. Some specific budget management
suggestions as well as the need for developing indicative
standards for service delivery as a tool to determine the
overall cost for delivering the educational service, are
presented among the policy options that this paper outlines. |
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