We don’t want state school system but the state should play a larger role in education, said Zoltán Pokorni, education minister of the Orbán government, in an interview with daily Népszabadság.
Pokorni said the goal is to help teachers’ salaries catch up with average salaries for degree holders, and a carreer system in which promotion would not depend so much on age but on number of tasks and quality of work. Answering a question, he said teachers would be supervised by an outside, professional body.
The former education minister also said full-day schools would be established where extracurricular activities would be held int he afternoons in order to help the forming of a community.
Pokorni added it was a legitimate question how these changes would be financed. He said they could not be realized in one step, but these were the goals of a four to eight-year program.
