The quality of governance of the education system. The case of the LOMLOE

La calidad de la gobernanza del sistema educativo. El caso de la LOMLOE

Authors

Francisco López Rupérez, Universidad Camilo José Cela

DOI

10.22550/REP81-3-2023-02

Abstract

* Organic Law 3/2020, of 29 December, which amends Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, on Education.

In the context of a highly complex social and economic landscape, getting educational reforms right is a crucial part of governance understood as the ability of governments to design, formulate and implement public poli­cies. This work focuses on the quality of gov­ernance in the education system. It starts by reviewing the concept of governance and its characteristic features. It then considers the quality of governance in education based on an integrated conceptual model, which is vali­dated through a Delphi process of consultation of experts, and an international comparative analysis. The main results of an exploratory evaluation carried out in 2017 of the quality of governance in the Spanish education sys­tem are described next. Finally, the contribu­tions of the LOMLOE legislation introduced in (2020) are analysed and evalu­ated in the light of the criteria derived from this conceptual model. The main conclusion that emerges from these empirical results is that the Spanish education system has a long journey ahead of it in terms of improving the quality of its governance.

Please, cite this article as follows: López Rupérez, F. (2022). La calidad de la gobernanza del sistema educativo. El caso de la LOMLOE | The quality of governance of the education system. The case of the LOMLOE. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 80 (281), 55-74. 10.22550/REP80-1-2022-02

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Author Biography

Francisco López Rupérez has a Doctorate in Physical Sciences and holds a Secondary School Chair. He is current­ly Director of the Chair in Educational Policies at the Universidad Camilo José Cela. He has been Director of the Liceo Español de París, Director General of Educational Centres of Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Secre­tary General for Education and Profes­sional Training in the same ministry, and President of the State School Council. He has written more than a dozen books and over a hundred articles in Spanish and foreign journals.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2613-9652

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López Rupérez, F. (2022). La calidad de la gobernanza del sistema educativo. El caso de la LOMLOE | The quality of governance of the education system. The case of the LOMLOE. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 80 (281), 155-174. 10.22550/REP80-1-2022-02

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