Working group to promote educational equality and positive discrimination in early childhood education and care, pre-primary, primary and lower secondary under the “Right to learn” development programme
Working group to promote educational equality and positive discrimination in early childhood education and care, pre-primary, primary and lower secondary
Working group to promote educational equality and positive discrimination in early childhood education and care, pre-primary, primary and lower secondary under the “Right to learn” development programme
OKM029:00/2020 Statute drafting
The Ministry of Education and Culture will appoint a working group to prepare measures to promote educational equality and positive discrimination in early childhood education and care, pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education.
Basic information Completed
Project number OKM029:00/2020
Case numbers VN/4208/2020
Set by Ministry of Education and Culture
Task class Preparation of a government proposal
Term/schedule 1.6.2020 – 31.12.2022
Date of appointment 13.5.2020
Law drafting
Government proposal-
Adopted statute-
Contact person
Minna Polvinen, Opetusneuvos
tel. +358 295 330 262
[email protected]
Goals and results
The tasks of the working group are to:
- prepare a legislative proposal to entrench measures to promote positive discrimination and equality as an effective part of the system of central government transfers for basic education
- formulate a proposal to establish a model for positive discrimination in early childhood education and care
- prepare measures to address the identified trends in disparities within schools and between schools as well as within cities and between regions
- draw up proposals for measures on ways to strengthen educational equality at regional level, taking into account demographic trends, housing policy, regional developments and development of suburban areas
- monitor and analyse the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in early childhood education and care and in primary and lower secondary education, in particular from the perspective of trends in equality and inequality, and to prepare related proposals for measures.
Starting points
The projects under the development programme serve to amend legislation, make the financing systems more effective in early childhood education and care and in pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education, and seek effective procedures and practices to strengthen equality.
The working group is expected to prepare proposals for policy measures on developments in inequality and in educational equality by 31 May 2021 and legislative proposals by 1 June 2022. The working group was appointed for the period 1 June 2020 to 31 December 2022.
Ungrouped
Person
Role, Term
Polvinen, Minna
Opetusneuvos
Ministry of Education and Culture
Role: Project contact person
18.5.2020 –
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