An institutional capacity assessment of Latvia's education system
Latvia’s Education Development Guidelines 2021-2027 set out the country’s vision for a high-quality and inclusive education and training system for all its citizens that supports sustainable national growth. The Guidelines call for the efficient management and use of resources across all levels of Latvia’s education system. To help realize this objective and ultimately Latvia’s education vision, the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) of Latvia invited the OECD Secretariat to undertake an institutional capacity assessment of its education system that focused on the following organizations: the MoES, four national-level agencies (the National Centre for Education; the State Education Development Agency; the State Education Quality Service; and the Academic Information Centre) and Latvia’s municipal Departments of Education. The objective of the assessment was to identify strengths and challenges and propose concrete recommendations for enhancing the roles and responsibilities and overall capacity of these organizations for education quality monitoring and providing improvement support, aimed at improving teaching and learning in all of Latvia’s schools and education institutions.
This report is the main output of the first phase of this technical assistance project. It presents the findings of the institutional capacity assessment and offers concrete recommendations for improvement. The second phase of the project consists of a stakeholder workshop that will be facilitated by the OECD project team and result in an institutional capacity development plan that is “co-constructed” by the MoES and education stakeholders from Latvia.
This project is part of the OECD Education Policy Committee’s work on implementation reviews and technical assistance. It is also part of the joint efforts and contributions of the OECD and UNESCO-International Institute of Educational Planning to the implementation of the SDG4 Education 2030 High Level Steering Committee’s work plan for strengthening the institutional capacities of education systems to use data and evidence for policy, planning, and implementation (Functional Area 1).
An institutional capacity assessment of Latvia's education system
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