In an interview on public radio’s Tuesday morning news programme, State Minister for Parliament at the Ministry of Human Capacities Bence Rétvári said that, although the Klebelsberg centre for the state administration of schools (KLIK) is to be dissolved, the state will continue to run the schools.
Mr. Rétvári said that the Government will not return to the pre-2010 system of local government-run schools, but the process of decision-making must be brought closer to the schools themselves.
He said that KLIK will be dissolved because recently it has received a large number of complaints for being a “bloated organisation centrally directing the running of schools”. The Educational Round Table has thus come to the conclusion that central administration should be reduced, he said.
Mr. Rétvári said that the new system is planned to become operational over the summer, so as to allow a smooth start to the new academic year in September.
He added that the Government is in no position to accept further financial burdens in education. Teachers’ salaries will be increased according to previously announced plans, but there is no room for any additional increases, he said.