Institucionalni ustroj i formulacija politike srednjeg strukovnog obrazovanja u Hrvatskoj: preliminarna analiza
Institutional framework and formulation of the upper secondary vocational education policy in Croatia: a preliminary analysis

Summary/Abstract: This article presents preliminary findings of the model designed to explain policy formulation and institutional development in the field of the Croatian upper secondary vocational education. Data was collected via literature review and in-depth semi-structured interviews with nine researchers and experts dealing with key policy actors (competent central state entities, counties, employers’ associations, and trade unions). Relevant features of key collective actors are analyzed and presented. Furthermore, concrete elements of the explanatory model are analyzed, only partially supporting the overall thesis that central state actors hold the greatest positional power, maintaining it by nonessential incremental compromises with other actors. Namely, it seems that central state actors do hold the overall control over key institutional features such as financing, learning content and standards of delivery. However, no evidence was found of them having to deploy active strategies in order to maintain their position.

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