... superintendent South Korea Direct election system Decentralization Since 2007 the general public has been electing superintendents of education in South Korea, an innovative system meant to implement decentralization, increase local participation and make the educational administration independent...

... to be decentralization of financing. The paper considers block grants as a mechanism for decentralization and explores other country experiences in this area. Design/methodology/approach The paper opts for both an analytical and exploratory study of the financing channels in the education sector in Iraq based...