Gyeonggi Office of Education to Introduce 'Policy Purchase System' Nationwide for the First Time

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education will implement the 'Policy Purchase System,' the first of its kind among education offices nationwide, which purchases educational policies and discovers new policies.

On the 29th, the Office of Education announced that the ordinance serving as the foundation for implementing the Policy Purchase System (Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Policy Purchase System Operation Ordinance) passed the Gyeonggi Provincial Council on the 28th.

The Policy Purchase System is a system that discovers and introduces new policies through a deliberation process, based on creative opinions, ideas, and educational content developed in schools by residents for the advancement of Gyeonggi education policies.

The Office of Education will operate the system by awarding prize money according to the grade of the award when a proposer’s suggestion is adopted and purchasing the policy.

With the passage of the ordinance, the Office of Education plans to build an integrated platform for operating the Policy Purchase System in the second half of the year, conduct a pilot operation by the end of this year, and fully operate the Policy Purchase System starting next year.

Seo Hye-jeong, Policy Planning Officer at the Office of Education, stated, "We will adopt proposals that were previously discarded or not adopted as mere fragmentary ideas, as well as educational content developed on-site, as policy proposals after a supplementation process," adding, "We hope that the process of purchasing policies will activate educational policy proposals."

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