Supplement to the Study on the Structures of the Education and Initial Training Systems in the European Union. The Situation in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Overview & Synopsis

This document consists of six reports that each provide essential basic information on the organization of the education system of one of the following countries as of 1995-1996: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Each report includes information on some or all of the following aspects of the given country's initial training system: responsibilities and administration (background, basic principles, distribution of responsibilities, legal framework and administration, legislative process, reforms, provision, curricular regulation, inspection, advisory/consultative bodies, financing, private schools, vocational orientation/guidance); preschool education (historical background, administration, curriculum and assessment, teachers, statistics); compulsory education; compulsory education and/or basic education (primary education, presecondary education, institutional separation at the lower secondary level, basic school curriculum, textbooks, assessment, teachers, statistics); secondary education (aims, curriculum, upper and lower secondary school education, secondary vocational and technical schools, integrated secondary vocational-technical schools, vocational training centers, assessment, teachers, statistics); vocational education (vocational schools, secondary vocational-technical schools and technical schools, special vocational training schools); teachers (teacher training, inservice teacher training, teachers' working hours); and higher education (admission requirements, tuition fees, types and lengths of courses, qualifications, academic year, universities and equivalent, nonuniversity higher education). (Forty-nine tables/figures are included.) (MN)