Lehet-e fontolva haladni az oktatásügyben?
Is it possible to introduce well-prepared and consensual reforms into the field of education?

Summary/Abstract: The author argues that several educational changes occurring in the last two decades have, as a common feature, the fact that they were not well prepared and were not based on a sufficient degree of social consensus. Later, he briefly presents two factors which may have some influence over the quality of public policy (knowledge and the mental preparedness of politicians and decision-makers, the political culture of public actors). Theoretically, the mobilization of people concerned about decisions may be in favor of avoiding improvisation in the field of public policy, though in post-communist Hungary the mobilization potential of teacher unions and NGOs is weak and concentrates more on material issues. Around the time of the political changes, for a short period a situation favorable to agreements concerning education – i.e. with there being a notable degree of consensus between major political forces – occurred, because the communist party and the opposition agreed that changing laws dealing with education required a majority.

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