Priority education policies in Belgium: two modes of regulation of the effects of a market logic

International audience ; An important feature of the Belgian context is the 'communautarisation'2 of education policies. Since 1989 teaching has fallen within the competence of the communities, whereas until then it came under the Federal state. It is the three language-based communities (the French-, Flemish- and German-speaking communities) that manage similar but completely independent education systems, each covering part of the country3. In this chapter we will base our account on the French and Flemish communities. The first part deals with the general context of the education systems of... Mehr ...