Analysis of Cooperative Educational Finance: a Case Study of the Netherlands

Abstract

[Purpose] The study aims to provide implications for implementing the debate between educational autonomy and local autonomy from the perspective of educational finance in South Korea, using the analysis of Dutch educational finance, which is a decentralized unitary state. [Method] The specific objectives are progressed by utilizing the literature review as follows; first, to overall review Dutch education finance trends and its main characteristics; second, to analyze educational finance sources according to households and enterprises so that students, parents, and institutions are supported from pre-primary to upper secondary education; and lastly, to suggest implications for education finance in South Korea in accordance with discourses on cooperation and linkages autonomy from Dutch education finance. [Result & Implications] Based on the research results, first, as an operating principle of education finance, mutual and linked cooperation between educational autonomy and general autonomy based on securing an appropriate scale should be strengthened; second, it was proposed to expand support and autonomy for overall finance for public and private schools, but maintain a sustainable performance management system by strengthening accountability at a school level. Third, it requires to enhance the support role of local governments and enterprises in education finance.