The Klebelsberg Institution Maintenance Centre (KLIK) was established in 2013 with the aim of replacing uncertain local government funding to guarantee the stable operation of schools, orderly conditions for teaching and training, and the uninterrupted teaching of students.
The Government assures the Institution Maintenance Centre’s unencumbered and stable financial background as required for the provision of continuous services. Within the framework of organisational restructuring, the Minister of Human Capacities hereby appoints Mrs. Gáborné Pölöskei as the Institution Maintenance Centre’s new President as of 1 March 2016, who will also participate in the professional reorganisation of the institution system as Ministerial Commissioner. Chancellor of the University of Pécs Zoltán Jenei has been appointed Ministerial Commissioner charged with solving the KLIK’s financial and organisational problems and developing a new maintainer structure. The Centre’s current President, József Hanesz, will exit the post by mutual agreement on 29 February 2016.
The Minister of Human Capacities expects the two newly appointed directors to rapidly assure the stable and unencumbered operation of the Institution Maintenance Centre and to prepare the new organisational and operational format to be introduced on 1 July 2016 based on the recommendations put forward by the Public Education Roundtable. The renewed organisation must be founded on the stability of state financing, concentrate primarily on the interests of students and build on the increased independence of school directors and the associated higher level of responsibility. Expectations include that decisions relating to individual schools should occur at local level, the opportunities inherent in the system should be optimally exploited and inequalities should be decreased. The new organisation must assure the resources required to perform teaching duties and must encourage school directors to make better use of the opportunities afforded by greater independence. In addition, internal administrative tasks must be optimised in the interests of freeing both teachers and school directors from unnecessary burdens.