FORMATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EDUCATION POLICY: THE ASPECT OF COHERENCE

Strategic education-related documents reflecting the content of the education policy emphasise the priorities, provisions, principles of the organisational development of the edu-cation system and its separate sectors, target societal attention and endeavours on the essential changes in the field of education focusing on expectations of the state society, the global, European Union tendencies within education policy and practice as well as assessment of the condition of education. The education policy as a prerogative of the state sector, a constituent part of public policy is closely related to policies of other fields, is multilayered, contextual, based on ideological and value attitudes, relatively encompasses closely interrelated strategic, managerial (tactical), administrative (operational performances) levels. The coherence of the education strategy and its implementation in education practice defined at the political level is a multifaceted issue. The article actualises the contradictions of formation and implementation of the education policy aims in the contexts of societal transformations. The correlations between the formation of the education system and globalisation processes, economic factors are dis-cussed in detail, the demand for research-based formation and implementation of the education policy is underlined, significance of the strategy of integrated development of educational organisations when implementing the education policy at the organisational level is theoretically reasoned.