Jan Herczyński

Independent researcher and consultant

This publication presents in-depth reviews of recent reforms of national systems of teacher remuneration in three countries in the region, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia, together with a comparative review and lessons learned for Ukrainian reformers. The reviews discuss the political and institutional context as well as the specific solutions adopt...

After a decade of severe fiscal crisis also impacting education, Greece is looking ahead. Now is the time to invest effectively in education and define a forward-looking path for Greece. Building on the current reform agenda, this report offers an analysis of the context and underlying policy issues that once addressed, can contribute to raising th...

Local government finance, especially the systems of grants from the national to local budgets, and other revenues streams of municipalities, counties, and regions, are highly specific for each country, as they depend crucially on legislation in force, on recent history, on the political process that takes place between different levels of governanc...

Publikacja opisuje zmiany w sieci szkół podstawowych dokonane w latach 2007–2012 przez gminy oraz pozostałe organy prowadzące. Przedmiotem analiz jest zamykanie i otwieranie szkół, zmiana organu prowadzącego szkoły, zmiana złożoności (filie, szkoły samodzielne, zespoły szkół) oraz zmia-na stopnia organizacji (prowadzone klasy w szkołach podstawowyc...

The book discusses key problems of education finance in Ukraine, presenting them in the context of institutional and demographic changes. The book focuses on issues of allocation, both at the central level (allocation of education subvention to school owners) and at the local level (setting school budgets). The book provides several references to t...

In 1999, as a result of reforms of the education system, a new type of lower secondary school, called gymnasium, was introduced in Poland. The main objectives of introducing the gymnasium were to equalize the educational opportunities of rural youth, improve the level of education and extend general education by one year. The reformers envisioned g...

This report for the Czech Republic forms part of the OECD Review of Policies to Improve the Effectiveness of Resource Use in Schools (also referred to as the School Resources Review, see Annex A for further details). The purpose of the review is to explore how school resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the qualit...

W 1999 r. w wyniku reformy systemu oświaty wprowadzono w Polsce nowy typ szkoły powszechnej – gimnazjum. Głównym celem wprowadzenia gimnazjów było wyrównanie szans edukacyjnych młodzieży wiejskiej, podniesienie poziomu kształcenia oraz przedłużenie o rok powszechnego nauczania. Gimnazja w zamyśle reformatorów miały być samodzielnymi szkołami w nowy...

The article documents a preliminary description of Polish teacher attitudes based on data collected from a representative sample of teachers describing their work habits and occupational experience in and out of school. Cluster analysis allowed identification of five distinct groups. Of particular note but difficult to describe in detail is the gro...

Decentralizacja oświaty zawiera analizy i raporty dotyczące kształtowania się ustroju polskiej oświaty w ciągu minionego dwudziestolecia. Jest to tematyka nad wyraz ważna nie tylko dlatego, że ma wpływ na każdy z omawianych aspektów i każdą z dziedzin oświaty, ale także dlatego, że zawiera wiele pytań otwartych, na które wciąż jeszcze nie ma jednoz...

The impact of school choice on education quality is one of the most hotly contested issues in education economics. We contribute to the debate by investigating the effect of concentration of local education markets and the number of schools in the city on the average achievements of 9th grade students in Polish middle schools. We find the evidence...

We investigate the size-related features of the production function of Polish primary schools. The interplay of small schools ineffectiveness and of organizational and social difficulties appearing in large schools implies that the relationship between school size and student achievement is non-linear, with the optimal size crucially dependent on t...

Incl. appendices and bibl. This book looks at the relationship beween decentralization of funding of schools and the prevalence of corruption, a crucial concern for education policymakers today. The monograph is based on the assumption that formula funding acts to reduce the likelihood of fraud, as one of its essential elements, is public accessibi...

We analyze the governance structure and the financing of Kyrgyz education, with special emphasis on the general secondary education system. General secondary schools are under the authority of oblasts and rayons. Our main findings are as follows: 1.) The oblast and rayon authorities in Kyrgyzstan are in fact delegated offices of the central adminis...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) brings host countries capital, productive facilities, and technology transfer, as well as new jobs and management expertise. Thus, it is important to understand why in many transition countries FDI inflow is lower than expected. The goal of this study is to explore some important factors determining flow of FDI into...

We analyze Georgian education finance and show that it is embedded in the overall structure of Georgian rayon finances, reflecting all their weaknesses: inequalities, lack of transparency, unmanageability, room for corruption. The budgetary and political independence of rayons is very limited. The steep fiscal inequalities between rayons are only p...

The author considers the Schrodinger operator for polynomially perturbed d-dimensional nonresonant harmonic oscillators. The author adapts to quantum mechanics the argument of Giorgilli and Galgani (1985), based on the Lie perturbation method and leading to Nekhoroshev type estimates. As a consequence the author shows how to use the Rayleigh-Schrod...

We discuss Weyl quantisation for operators with holomorphic symbols in the Bargmann representation. As an application we extend to this class of operators the semiclassical analysis of perturbation theory as introduced by Degli Espostiet al.(Ann. Phys.209(1991), 364–392).

We provide a simple argument that at non-resonant actions the normal form for a quasi-integrable Hamiltonian system, as defined by von Zeipel-Poicar and Lie perturbation algorithms, is unique.Si fornisce una semplice dimostrazione dell'unicit della forma normale di un sistema hamiltoniano quasi-integrabile, come definito dagli algoritmi perturbativ...

For any polynomial perturbation of a d-dimensional system of non-resonant harmonic oscillators it is proved, writing the classical Hamiltonian in complex coordinates and the corresponding Schrödinger operator in the Bargmann representation, that the classical Lie algorithm generating the canonical perturbation expansion can be “exactly” quantized t...