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.

Project status

1.6.2020 Term starts
28.9.2022 Työryhmän loppuraportti Completed
31.12.2022 Term ends

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.

Summary

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.

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.

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