QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN CROATIA AND PERSPECTIVES OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATION — APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH ON TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

In recent years education has been in the process of reorganization, especially when education has faced major challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, emphasizing the importance of human potential, the management of educational institutions and the quality of the entire education system face certain challenges. Based on many years of research, the authors note that management has not achieved a necessary level of cognition being a vital component of efficient management. In Croatia, there is a large deficit of students enrolled in high school tourism courses. On the other hand, Croatia, as one of the most developed tourist destination on the Mediterranean, is in a state of high demand for quality and educated tourism workers. With regard to this issue, in this paper, the authors proposed a project for research of competences of school principals for the function of managing educational institutions.

Keywords

• education
• management in education
• educational institutions
• tourism