The purpose of this study is to identify the needs and directions of launching the National Education Commission, as well as seek optimal solutions to key issues. For this purpose, a Delphi survey was conducted on 30 experts.
The results of this study are as follows:First of all, it has been confirmed that there is a consensus on the need to set up the National Education Commission, separately from Ministry of Education, and the reasons are securing consistency and stability in policies, overcoming administrative-centered bureaucracy, securing independence and political neutrality in education, ensuring autonomy of universities, the need to manage educational conflicts, and eliminating non-democracies in administration. Second, experts agreed that the National Education Commission should be granted legal status as an independent body by law, while the Ministry of Education is maintain its current status. Third, with regard to the main functions of the National Education Commission, the consensus was reached on the establishment of comprehensive and long-term national education plans, proposals for major education-related laws, coordination of conflicts in the education sector, establishment and coordination of major education policies, and monitoring and evaluation of major education policies. Fourth, the formation of the National Education Commission should be made from a compromise perspective that takes into account both education expertise and social representation. Fifth, an agreement was reached on the establishment of the kindergarten, Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, Higher Education Committee, and Lifelong and Vocational Education Committee as sub-committees. Finally, it proposed that the installation of the National Education Commission should be carefully designed so that problems such as the delay of the transfer of educational administrative authority to local and university, and the reduction of functions of the legislature and judiciary for education would not arise.