​The Ministry of Education

Index

Index of Subjects

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Last Update: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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Introduction

 

• Forward - A Word From the Editor.

 

 

 

Section 1 – Responsibilities and Obligations

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• The Prime Minister – Privileges and Responsibilities.

 

• The Prime Minister – His authority and role at the Ministry of Education.

 

• The Minister – Privileges and Responsibilities.

 

• The Minister - His authority and role at the Ministry of Education.

 

• Is the position of the Minister professional or political?

 

• The challenges, every four years, posed by the “changing of the guards.”

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• The Deputy Minster and his partnership with the Minister.

 

• Professional training of the Minister and Deputy Minister.

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• Advisors to the Minister and Deputy Minister.

 

• Inspecting the work of the Ministry of Education.

 

• A new Minister arrived and seeks “reform”?

 

• The Minister of Education VS the Minister of the Treasury.

 

 

 

Section 2 – the Ministry of Education

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• The structure of a complex body.

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• the structure of the Ministry of Education in Western societies.

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• How to make significant changes within the Ministry of Education system.

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• The authority of the Ministry of Education.

 

• The budget of the Ministry of Education.

 

• The Ministry of Education – Education net!

 

• National legislation.

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• A national vision for the long and short term.

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• The national morale.

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Section 3 – the Ministry of Education and its Relations with Schools

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• How to make meaningful changes in a complex entity.

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• The relationship between the Ministry of Education and schools.
   

• The budgets for the schools and provincial and state governments.

 

• The budget should not be political.

 

• The budget per child and not per school.

 

• The inspector. His goal and mission.

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• A license for opening a school.

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• Private and religious schools.

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Section 4 – the Ministry of Education and Educational Organizations

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• The Ministry of Education, provincial, state and international educational organizations.

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• The unions.

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• Working with Social Services and courts.

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• Lobbying at the Ministry.

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Section 5 – the Ministry and the Principals

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• The Ministry and its role as the “super-principal”.

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• Setting the rules and the vision.

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• Delegating responsibilities.

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• Professional training for school principals.

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• A proposal and plan for training principals.

 

• Ongoing guidance and supervision.

 

• Principals’ salaries.

 

• The laws and rights of the Principal.

 

• Putting pressure on school principals. Is it healthy?

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• Support plan for principals and administrations.

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• Supporting principals threatened by violent parents.

 

 

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Section 6 – Investing in Teachers

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• Encouraging the profession of teaching.

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• Teachers’ training.

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• A curriculum for teachers’ training.

 

• A help line for teachers.

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• Human Resource office.

 

• Teaching licences.

 

• Teachers’ salaries.

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• Protecting teachers from violent students.

 

• Protecting teachers from violent parents.

 

• The laws and rights of the teacher.

 

• 24/7 helpline for teachers.

 

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Section 7 - Investing in the Parents

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• The relationship between the ministry and parents.

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• Choose a school for your child!

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• Tuition.

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• A national plan for professional training for parents.

 

• 24/7 helpline for parents.

 

 

 

Section 8 – Justice at Ministry of Education?

 

• Introduction.

 

• The Ontarians (Canada) issue

 

• The Success of Private Schools in The United States

 

• The Deputy Minister in Israel’s opinion.

 

• The voice of the schools and the parents.

 

• Should the MOE get involved in private schools?

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• Appendix – 1

 

• Appendix - 2

 

• Appendix - 3

 

• Appendix - 4

 

• Appendix - 5

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• Appendix - 6

 

 

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Section 9 – The World of the Child

 

• Each child is a diamond.

 

• the laws and rights of the student.

 

• A national plan for weaker students.

 

• Special Education.

 

• A national plan for Special Needs children located in the mainstream.

 

• Schools in the suburbs and small villages.

 

• 24/7 helpline for children.

 

 

 

Section 10 – National Educational Plan

 

• A national plan to raise the level of education and improve the behaviour of students.

 

• A national plan to enforce discipline in the schools.

 

• All about bullying and its impact.

 

• Teaching or educating? A professional structure for educational (!) curriculum.

 

• Investing in individuals.

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Section 11 – Curriculum

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• A national plan to upgrade academic standards.

 

• Supervising the curriculum of private schools.

 

• High school diploma.

 

• International exams.

 

 

 

Section 12 – the Local Government

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• Introduction

 

• Differentiation of the jurisdiction – is it working?

 

• Dividing the work between the Ministry of Education and provincial and state governments.

 

• Working with the schools.

 

• Cooperation with provincial and state educational institutions.

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• The structure of the Department of Education and the provincial and state governments.

 

• The power of the Department of Education.

 

• Its role.

 

• Its budget.

 

 

 

Section 13 – Professional Research

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• Are the standards of schools decreasing or increasing?

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• Health programmes for ALL children!

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• The influence of education on the national economy.

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• Does religion contradict the laws of the constitution?

 

• A Moment of Silence.

 

• The role of “residential schools”.

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• Appendix – 1

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• Appendix - 2

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• Appendix - 3

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• Appendix - 4

 

• Appendix - 5

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• Appendix - 6

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Section 14 – The Professionals Talk…

 

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